plant named ‘Electric Slide’

Latin name of the genus and species:hybrid.

Variety denomination: ‘Electric Slide’.

‘Electric Slide’ was first sold or offered for sale by Walters Gardens, Inc. to North Coast Perennials on Oct. 15, 2024. The new plant was also listed on a website hosted by Walters Gardens, Inc. starting on Feb. 1, 2025, and in their “Walters Gardens 2025 2026 Catalog” first distributed on Jun. 3, 2025. No plants of‘Electric Slide’ have been sold in this country or anywhere in the world nor has any disclosure of the new plant been made more than one year prior to the filing date of this application, and such sale or disclosure within one year was either derived directly or indirectly from the inventor.

The present invention relates to the new and distinctcultivar named ‘Electric Slide’ also referred to here as the new plant. ‘Electric Slide’ was hybridized under direction of the inventor at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Michigan, USA as the result of a greenhouse cross between ‘PJS01S’ (not patented) as the female parent and ‘John Proffitt’ (not patented) as the male parent in the summer of 2019. Seeds from this pollination were collected in the fall of 2019 and were sown earlier the next year. The new plant originated from a single seedling, was initially evaluated in the summer of 2021, selected for further evaluation, and assigned the breeder code 19-5-2.

‘Electric Slide’ has been successfully asexually propagated by shoot tip cuttings since 2021 at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Michigan and found to produce identical stable and identical plants in successive generations of asexual propagation.

‘Electric Slide’ differs from the parents as well as all other Hardy Ice Plant cultivars known to the inventor. The most similar knowncultivars include: ‘FSDD2117’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 36,476, ‘Orchid Flash’ U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 18/445,962, ‘T1854’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 34,730, and ‘Violet Wonder’ (not patented).

‘FSDD2117’ has reddish-purple foliage and smaller flowers with petals that are more reddish and less purple. ‘Orchid Flash’ has larger flowers with longer petals that are lighter reddish-purple. ‘T1854’ has larger flowers with more petals with a lighter purplish-red color. ‘Violet Wonder’ has flowers with a lighter lilac in the outer petal portion and white on the inside.

The female parent, ‘PJS01S’, has flower petals that are fuchsia to reddish raspberry. ‘John Proffitt’ has petals that are lighter purplish-red with a white base.

‘Electric Slide’ differs from the above cultivars and all other cultivars of Hardy Ice Plant known to the inventor with the following repeatable distinguishing characteristics in combination:

The following is a detailed description of two-year-old plants of the new cultivar grown outdoors in a full sun display garden with supplemental water and fertilizer as needed at a wholesale nursery in Zeeland, Michigan. No plant growth regulators have been used. Plants of the new cultivar have not been tested under all possible conditions. The phenotype may vary with changes in the environment, climate, and cultural conditions without a change in the genotype. The color reference is in accordance with the 2015 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where general color dictionary terms are used.