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Druett's Variegated Sea Champion

Druett's Variegated Sea Champion

SILENE uniflora 'Druett's Variegated'

Blooms Summer
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Ships as 4"
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Common Name(s)
Bladder or Sea Campion, Carpet Catchfly
Sunlight
Full Sun (6+ hrs) or Partial Sun / Shade (3-6 hrs)
Perennial Zones
4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Watering
Let dry
Max Height
Up to 6"
Max Spread
6"-12"
Special Features
Ground cover
Garden Design Role
Ground cover
Bloom Season
Summer
Lifespan
Perennial
Growing Habit
Ground cover
Drought Resistance
High drought resistance
Bloom Color
White
Foliage Color
Green
Themes
Gothic, Pastel
Genus
Silene
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Ship Size
4"

Druett's Variegated Sea Campion comes as a live 4-inch plant that spreads into a low cushion of small silvery green leaves, each one neatly edged in cream. Through summer, white flowers on short stems float above the mat, every bloom sitting in the inflated, balloon-like calyx that makes Silene uniflora unmistakable.

Give it the work no upright plant can do: draping over a retaining wall, softening the lip of a stone trough, threading between paving, or knitting a rock garden together. It takes coastal wind and salt air in stride, and it wants coarse, free-draining soil kept evenly moist rather than sodden.

Grower's note: Variegated plants now and then throw an all-green shoot, and that shoot grows faster than the rest. Snip those out at the base the moment you spot them and the cream edging stays crisp right across the cushion.

  • Sunlight: Full Sun (6+ hrs) or Partial Sun / Shade (3-6 hrs)
  • Water: Keep moist
  • Drought Tolerance: High
  • Mature Size: Up to 6" tall × 6"-12" wide
  • Bloom Season: Summer
  • Lifespan: Perennial
  • Perennial Zones: 4–8
  • Special: Ground cover

A quiet, useful carpet for walls and gravel, and it arrives healthy or we send a replacement free.

Druett's Variegated Sea Champion