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FlowerPotNursery Liriope Pee Dee Gold Ingot Liriope muscari P. D. Gold I. 4" Pot

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Same adaptable, tough-as-nails garden performer as the green-leafed type! Why settle for plain green Liriope when now there's gleaming Pee Dee Gold Ingot to brighten the shade? This stunning new yellow-edged variety is just about the brightest thing to hit the edging-and-groundcover world in years, and I'm delighted to be able to offer it here!
The leaves emerge a fresh, vivid yellow in spring, eventually maturing to deep golden or chartreuse. This plant forms a neat little rounded tuft about 10 to 12 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. Just the thing to dot around the shade border, outline a path, or ring the patio garden!
Very hardy and adaptable, this tough cookie withstands heat, humidity, drought, poor soil -- well, just about anything. It's topped in mid- to late summer with slender, rather underwhelming lavender bloomspikes (I know gardeners who ruthlessly snip these off, but I enjoy the new look), and keeps its color year-round. Very long-lived, Lily-Turf (also called Monkey Grass) is the kind of plant you can dig up with a shovel, forget to transplant for a week or so, then guiltily shove into any old unprepared soil and probably get great results! It is easily divided (simple whack with that shovel again!) and puts up with a good deal of adversity provided the soil it's in is well-drained and it has at least some shade every day.

Pee Dee Ingot is the work of South Carolina plantswoman Ursula Herz, so you know it thrives in hot, humid summer climates! Hardy from zones 6 through 10, it is a fine companion in the shade garden to blue Hosta, and Japanese Painted Fern! Space plants 18 inches apart in the garden.

Liriope muscari is a species of low, herbaceous flowering plants from East Asia. Common names in English include big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass. It is a perennial with grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall. It is invasive to North America and considered a threat to native wildlife.

It is an understory plant in China, Japan, and Korea occurring in shady forests at elevations of 330-4,600 ft.

It is a tufted, grass-like perennial which typically grows 12-18 in tall and features clumps of strap-like, arching, glossy, dark green leaves to ½ inch wide. Clumps slowly expand by short stolons to a width of about 12 in, but plants do not spread aggressively. Roots are fibrous, often with terminal tubers. The small, showy flowers occur on erect spikes with tiered whorls of dense, white to violet-purple flowers rising above the leaves in late summer. Flowers resemble those of grape hyacinth (Muscari), which is the origin of the specific epithet. Flowers develop into blackish berries which often persist into winter. Lilyturf is deer resistant. There is considerable variation in leaf color and size among a number of recognized cultivars.

Distinguishing species in the genus Liriope is difficult at best, and mistaken identity occurs in commercial nurseries. Lilyturf is distinguished from creeping lilyturf (Liriope spicata), the other most common species in the genus, by its fibrous root system (in contrast to the rhizomatous root system of creeping lilyturf), its more prominent flower spike extending above the leaves (creeping lilyturf has a shorter spike more within leaves), and its generally wider and longer leaves when compared to creeping lilyturf.

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