Gardeners Tips on Ground Cover Plants
Reasons to consider ground cover for your garden
- Ground cover can be designed to be low maintenance
- Good cover will soften edges and sides of paths
- Soil on slopes or banking can be held in place
- Difficult areas with access problems can be covered in style
- Bare soil can be unsightly unless covered
- Good plant selection can make a feature of ground cover
- Ground cover can add balance and harmony within the garden
Plants for Ground Cover Situations
- Auga reptans blue flower spikes aka Bugle ‘burgundy glow’
- Vinca major and minor – both evergreen periwinkles
- Pachysandra terminalis – whirling evergreen leaves
- Epimedium rubrum – green flushed red
- Euonymus fortunei – Emerald ‘n’ gold broad yellow margins
- Geranium renardii G macrorhizum useful but not spectacular
- Deadnettle lamium maculatum aureum – variegated leaf with purple flowers
- Ivy for deep shade or variegated forms for light shade
- Ophiopogon planiscapus – Black mondo grass
- Epimedium Niveum – White Flowers
- Juniper Squamata – blue needles and prostrate habit
- Viburnum Davidii – Mound forming sweet scented flowers
Build your Confidence
There are no absolutes in gardening. If something doesn’t work to your satisfaction try something else. I use low heather and ling to cover some rough ground. There are roses sold as ground cover and any number of other plants may suit your requirements so give it a try.
Conifers with a horizontal nature can form very effective ground cover
2 thoughts on “Gardeners Tips on Ground Cover Plants”
I like the bugle weed but some of those others can be quite invasive. My favorite groundcovers are Phlox subulata and Sweet Woodruff.
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