My newest favorite spring bloomer is Euphorbia epithymoides or Cushion Spurge. My plant was generously given at my garden club’s plant exchange in June 2010. I took the tiny, sweet, baseball-sized plant home that day with no knowledge of the plant, but with great expectations. I did some research & learned it would enjoy a dry, sunny spot. This was perfect because I was putting that type of garden together that year! Was I ever rewarded! The photo left was taken the following spring. The mound, pictured at left, was basketball sized by springtime! Turns out it loves the all-day sunny spot. Spurges are succulents that can take the dry conditions. The beautiful bright, yellow flowers are really bracts (think poinsettia – the red bracts). The foliage changed to light orange in the fall. A wonderful companion plant is the Forget-Me-Knot. I pair it with annual portulaca & blue fescue grass (another garden club donation plant that day). Find this plant this year & enjoy your first Euphorbia!
PS. Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is on all weekend. See link to participate. For my day one fifteen minutes I counted 3 chickadees, 2 blue jays, 2 Carolina wrens, 1 female cardinal & a cooper’s hawk!
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc
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