![]() You don’t want to squeeze ground cover plants together most grow and cover their soil surface by year three. Remember that coverage isn’t instantaneous. Photo credit: nnattalli/Shutterstock Planting Ground Cover It’s deer-resistant and can tolerate drought, heat, and cold. This low-maintenance plant thrives year-round! Pink or white flowers bloom in spring and summer. Wonderful as ground cover in a shady area, Spotted deadnettle ( Lamium maculatum) can cover large areas quickly, prevailing in the most unforgiving of conditions. Photo credit: fotomarekka/Shutterstock 10. And that sprinkling of tiny white flowers is just sublime. Mine grow under a forsythia outside my living room window where I can keep an eye out for their early blossoms. It is an excellent low growing groundcover for shady spots and under trees and stays green until the snow hits. With bright green fragrant leaves, sweet woodruff ( Galium odorata) bears clusters of white flowers in spring. Image: Juniperus horizontalis ‘Wiltonii’ 9. Although a single plant may eventually grow to 8 feet in diameter, the recommended spacing is 2 to 3 feet for quick coverage. Its intense silver-blue needles take on pleasing purple tones in winter. A popular choice is blue rug juniper ( Juniperus horizontalis ‘Wiltonii’), a tough-as-nails ground hugger that is only 4 to 6 inches tall. This ground cover is suitable for parched areas. ![]() Ornamental grasses such as blue fescue ( Festuca glauca) work well in dry, hot spots and also add beautiful texture to the landscape. Zones 3-9.Ĭreeping Thyme ( Thymus serpyllum) is sun-loving perennial herb with small lavender flowers that bloom in the summer and an evergreen mat of low-growing foliage. One of the best native plants to use as a shade groundcover, Foamflower ( Tiarella cordifolia) has 8- to 10-inch spikes of fluffy white flowers in spring and evergreen foliage that adds visual texture to a woodland path and an added layer of interest between taller plants in your shade garden. Tolerant of a wide range of growing conditions from dry to moist but well-drained soils, this undemanding plant performs reliably in the garden. In full sun, phlox provides a thick mass of carpet-like foliage which is completely covered with an abundance of blooms. Two good choices, both hardy to Zone 4, are two-inch-tall ‘John Creech’ two-row sedum ( Sedum spurium cv.), with pink flowers in June, and the six-inch-tall ‘Fuldaglut’ two-row sedum, with reddish or purple foliage and rose-red flowers from July through September.Ĭreeping phlox ( Phlox stolonifera) works well in hot spots or sandy spots with full sun and maintains thick foliage all year-round as well as pretty blooms in the early spring. Practically bullet-proof, they are able to withstand any amount of abuse you throw at them and their blossoms will attract a multitude of bees and other beneficials. These spreading, mat-forming types of sedums resist drought by storing water in their fleshy stems and roots. Sedum comes in many shapes and sizes but the low growing ones are perfect groundcovers for those hot dry slopes where nothing else grows. Hens and chicks multiply fast and will soon tightly fill in a bare spot making it hard for weeds to gain a foothold. Hens-and-chicks ( Sempervivum) are great tucked between pavers and stones that line your pathways but you probably don’t want to walk on them, especially barefoot! They thrive in hot dry places where nothing else will grow and make a fine living mulch for a xeriscape garden. Spaced 12 inches apart, plants will form a thick carpet in two or three seasons. These mature to bright red berries that birds love. In spring, the entire plant is covered with tiny white flowers tinged with pink. The six-inch-tall evergreen has small, glossy, dark-green leaves that turn bronze-ish-red in autumn. ![]() ![]() 1. Bearberryīearberry ( Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) is extremely tolerant of poor soil, bearberry will even will grow in pure sand and will grow in sun or shade. It’s important to choose the right ground cover for your needs, plant ground cover correctly, and also make sure that you pick a ground cover that can’t get quickly out of control. ![]() High-traffic areas that need something tougher than grass.Īnd don’t just think of ground covers as cover-ups! They can provide flowering color and interest to your landscape. They can be beneficial to pollinators, stabilize soil, and grow where other plants won’t grow, such as under a tree. ![]()
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