Groundcovers
Groundcovers are low-lying plants with a creeping, spreading habit that are used to cover sections of ground while requiring minimal maintenance. They can help to prevent soil erosion, as well as reduce the amount of weeding and mowing required.
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Artemisia - Silvermound
Soft, feathery foliage and forms a compact, silky, cushion-like mound. Combines especially well with dark leaved plants.

Bog Rosemary - Blue Ice
Icy-blue leaves combine with masses of small pink bell-shaped flowers for dramatic effect. Mounding groundcover that is perfect plant for rock garden.

Brunnera - Silver Heart
Forms a thick clump of heart-shaped leaves that are silver with green edging and veining. Sprays of deep blue Forget-me-not flowers in spring.

Candytuft - Snowsation
Flowers up a storm! This compact growing candytuft features masses of large white flower clusters in early Spring that last for weeks.

Cypress, Russian
Deep green summer color that can fill the roughest toughest, driest, most gnarly areas of the landscape with a carpet of green.

Evening Primrose - Ozark Sundrops
Large, bell shaped, canary yellow blossoms with a crepe like texture appear above the rich green foliage.

Hardy Ice Plant - Fire Spinner
Forms a low carpet of succulent, apple-green leaves, bearing loads of starry flowers with petals that are bright apricot around the perimeter with a darker halo effect, vibrant pink at the base and a white eye

Hens & Chicks - Gold Nugget
Brillant golden yellow rosettes are tipped in electric red-orange during the cooler months of the year. In mid summer the rosettes transform to vibrant lime green

Juniper - Blue Rug
Silvery blue foliage takes on a slight purple tinge during winter months. Very flat growing with long trailing branches reaching up to 8 feet.
Lambs Ears - Hummelo
Puckered green foliage with spikes of purple flowers make this an awesome ground cover

Bearberry
Dainty nodding shell pink, bell shaped flowers adorn the ends of the branches in mid spring. Abundance of magnificent red berries from late summer to late fall. Evergreen. Also known as Kinninnick. Native to Ontario and most of Canada.

Brass Buttons - Platts Black
Feathery fern-like foliage is green with gray, purple, and black tints. Yellow button-like flowers appear a few inches above the foliage in summer.

Bugleweed - Black Scallop
Forms a dense, weed suppressing mat with fantastic glossy, near-black, scalloped leaves and a dense habit. The deepest foliage color is achieved when plants are sited in full sun. Short spikes of blue flowers stand above the low spreading foliage.

Cotoneaster - Bearberry
Wonderful prostate evergreen ground cover with trailing branches , white flowers in May and striking red berries in the fall and winter.

Daphne, Dwarf - Lawrence Crocker
A low mounding evergreen shrub. It bears large clusters of soft lavender pink flowers with the most intoxicatingly sweet and pleasant fragrance during late spring and early summer. Dark green glossy leaves.

Geranium, Perennial - Cloud Nine
Stunning fully-double duck egg blue flowers sit above a mounding clump of handsome deeply divided green dark leaves

Hardy Ice Plant - Granita Orange
Extra large, daisy shaped, stunning bright orange blooms. Everblooming.

Hopflower - Kirigami
Whorls oof dusty-pink, hop-like bvracts with tiny rose-pink flowers peeking out. Forms a low trailing mound of aromatic purple-green heart shaped leaves.

Juniper - Prince of Wales
Lush bright green foliage takes on a slight plum colour during winter months. Branches form a starburst pattern. Very flat growing with long trailing branches reaching up to 8 feet.

Leadwort, Dwarf
Highly underrated ground cover of great beauty and considerable late-season interest. Durable, long-lived and requires very little maintenance. Although it is slow to emerge in the spring once it breaks dormancy it grows rapidly

Blueberry - Wild
Short in stature, and spreads by underground stems. A mature planting can form a dense ground cover. Leaves are glossy blue-green in summer, turning purple in the fall. The sweet, small dark blue berries are used in preserves and pies and are high in antioxidants.

Brunnera - Sea Heart
Superb introduction, forming a clump of thick, heart-shaped medium-green leaves, marbled and frosted with an intricate pattern of silver with green edging and veining.

Bugleweed - Burgundy Glow
Forms a dense, weed suppressing mat with fantastic tricoloured foliage in shades dark green, creamy white, and rose purple . Short spikes of blue flowers stand above the low spreading foliage.

Creeping Jenny - Golden
Vigorous, spreading groundcover that can be very useful in moist, shady situations. Plants form a low mat of golden rounded leaves, bearing bright yellow flowers from late spring into the summer.

Deutzia - Nikko
Low growing charming shrub with masses of snowy white, fragrant flowers on slender arching branches in late spring.

Geranium, Perennial - Rozanne
Continuous summer bloom, Huge 2.5 inch saucer shaped violet blue flowers with white centres. Attractive deep green foliage with lighter chartreuse marbling.

Heather, Scotch - Dark Beauty
Profuse semi-double dark cerise flowers, deepening to ruby red are on display in late summer and early fall, contrasting fantastically with the dark green foliage. One of the darkest flowered heathers available.

Japanese Forest Grass - All Gold
Soft, graceful foliage is bright yellow. Loose clusters of creamy flowers in late spring. Forms a dense mounded clump that
resembles a miniature bamboo.

Juniper - Youngstown
Silvery-grey foliage takes on a purplish hue in winter. Branches grow upward and outward—spreading up to 6 feet. Tightly branched, low growing groundcover - excellent for use in a rock garden.

Lingonberry - Red Candy
Fantastic edible evergreen groundcover with small dark green glossy leaves. New growth in spring is tinged with red & orange. Selffertilizing, Fruit is ripe in late fall