Orange Carpet® Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. garrettii ‘PWWG01S’
4-6” tall x 18-24” wide
Zone 3
Sun, Part Sun
A Plant Select® introduction from 2001, this vibrant, spreading groundcover lights up the landscape with a profusion of orange-scarlet blooms from mid to late summer. Ideal for high-altitude and cool-climate gardens, it thrives with minimal water once established.
From the pros at Plant Select: To help establish new transplants, provide supplemental winter water for the first couple of years if winter conditions are dry. Needs full sun for best growth. Thrives in disturbed soils–aerate surrounding soil with push aerator or spading fork from time to time.
Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these. These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care. These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death. About sizes of our plants:
Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size; b&b stands for balled and burlapped.