Plant Database
Golden Breath of Heaven
Coleonema pulchrum ‘Sunset Gold’
Golden Breath of Heaven is a vibrant, low-growing cultivar that illuminates the garden with its golden-yellow, aromatic foliage. Its fine, needle-like leaves maintain a bright chartreuse to gold color year-round, especially in full sun. Like its green counterpart, it produces a cloud of tiny, pale pink flowers in late winter and spring. This colorful, drought-tolerant, and salt-resistant shrub is perfect for adding a splash of lasting golden color to sunny borders, rockeries, slopes, or as a bright, informal groundcover or low hedge.
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Vibrant Golden Foliage: Maintains bright golden-yellow to chartreuse, needle-like leaves throughout the year, providing excellent color contrast.
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Compact, Spreading Habit: Grows lower and wider than the species, forming a mounding, groundcover-like shrub 2-4 feet tall and 4-6 feet wide.
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Delicate Pink Spring Flowers: Bears the same profusion of tiny, star-shaped, light pink flowers in late winter to spring.
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Extreme Drought & Salt Tolerance: Once established, it thrives on neglect, requiring very little water and tolerating harsh coastal conditions.
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Low Maintenance Color Accent: An easy-care plant that needs only occasional trimming after flowering. Its primary appeal is its persistent golden color.