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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Bellflower - White Clips
Forms a low, cushion-shaped mound of small green leaves, with
loads of upfacing, pure white blossoms appearing in early summer.
Bloodroot
Stunning white blossoms appear for a very short time early spring, emitting a wonderful fragrance that attracts many kinds of early-flying pollinators such as Mason bees and Carpenter bees
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 - 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.
Carpet Daisy - Silver Kisses
Gray lacy foliage gives way to white daisy flowers which completely cover the plant.
Deutzia - Nikko
Low growing charming shrub with masses of snowy white, fragrant flowers on slender arching branches in late spring.
Foam Flower - Heart Leaf
Tiny white to pinkish-white flower spikes in May & June. One of the best native plants for the shade garden.
Geranium, Perennial - New Dimension
Masses of periwinkle-blue flowers from early to late summer on this compact grower. Attractive deeply lobed foliage is bronze-purple in spring and early summer, turning deep green by mid-summer & finally dark red in the fall.
Heather - Kramer's Red
Low growing, compact evergreen shrub with bright green needle like leaves. Magenta red bell shaped flowers in late winter to early spring.
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.
Bellflower, Serbian (Campanula poscharskyana)
Lilac-blue flowers with flaring, star -shaped lobes appear in loose panicles along the stems in late spring.
Bog Rosemary - Bergy Bit
Icy-blue green leaves combine with masses of small white bell-shaped flowers for dramatic effect. Mounding groundcover that is perfect plant for rock garden.
Brunnera - Dawson's White
Heart shaped leaves boldly variegated, deep-green and white, some almost entirely white.
Candytuft - Snow Cone
Features cone shaped white flowers and a longer bloom time.
Creeping Jenny - Golden (Lysimachia Nummularia ‘Aurea’)
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.
Emera
Pavement Rose. Semi double carmine pink flowers in large sprays of cupped flowers bloom continuously.
Foamy Bells - Solar Power
Lobed, yellow-gold to lime green leaves that are splashed with deep red. Sprays of small white bell flowers appear in late spring
Geranium, Perennial - Orion
Cup shaped blue flowers with white centers are held above a dense mound of lacey foliage
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.
Lambs Ears - Wooly
Wooly silvery foliage with spikes of pink to purple flowers in June. Drought tolerant and easy to grow-does not like wet soil
Bergenia - Winter Glow
Shiny evergreen cabbage like leaves with bright pinkish red flowers in spring and again in the fall. Leaves take on a remarkable reddish bronze hue during the winter on this semi evergreen perennial
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.
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.
Candytuft - Snow Cushion
White flowers spring to early summer are a stark contrast against its dark foliage.
Dead Nettle - Red Nancy
Forms a lovely mat of silvery foliage edged in green. Spikes of charming rose-red to red-purple flowers rise above the foliage from spring until early fall.
Evening Primrose - Ozark Sundrops
Large, bell shaped, canary yellow blossoms with a crepe like texture appear above the rich green foliage.
Geranium, Perennial - Cloud Nine
Stunning fully-double duck egg blue flowers sit above a mounding clump of handsome deeply divided green dark leaves
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.
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
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