Okay, freeway iceplant, aka, redspike ice plant, is pretty ugly, sparse and doesn’t hold back slopes that well. But these last few posts forced me to research it, the stuff i was pimping isn’t red spike (highway ice plant), it doesn’t really look like iceplant, it is currenlty listed on the living desert website of palm springs as one of their plants in their outdoor botanical gargens so it does well in heat, uses little water and makes a good fire break. The problem with native plants is they burn like the dickens. I’m with you treehugger on the pampuas grass as being devil spawn but go easy on my pretty purple carpet. I found my purple carpet on xeriscape websites as a lawn replacement option, you can’t walk on it but you don’t have to mow it or water it much and it’s pretty. It also wasn’t on the bad plant list, it’s not the iceplant they list. I did like that list, it listed eucalyptus as evil, I wholeheartedly agree.

I’m afraid I’m not with you on the saltgrass, i took the link and looked at the pictures, it looks a lot like what I pay my kids to pick, my apologies for the senseless and ongoing murder, but at least i don’t spray them with roundup, well…not that I’ll admit to anyway. If you can outlaw pampas grass and blue gum eucalyptus, I’ll leave the salt grass alone, deal.