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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

Artemisia - Silvermound

Soft, feathery foliage and forms a compact, silky, cushion-like mound. Combines especially well with dark leaved plants.

Bergenia - Diamond Drops

Bergenia - Diamond Drops

Compact flower heads studded with pure white, cup-shaped florets. Bright stamens in the centre give the impression of sparkling diamonds

Bog Rosemary - Blue Ice

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 - Sea Heart

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 - Black Scallop

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 - Snowsation

Candytuft - Snowsation

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

Creeping Jenny - Golden

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.

Emera

Emera

Pavement Rose. Semi double carmine pink flowers in large sprays of cupped flowers bloom continuously.

Geranium, Perennial - Cloud Nine

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

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.

Bellflower, Serbian

Bellflower, Serbian

Lilac-blue flowers with flaring, star -shaped lobes appear in loose panicles along the stems in late spring.

Bergenia - Dumbo

Bergenia - Dumbo

 Large, rounded leaves are covered on both sides with soft, downy hairs. Short flower spikes in spring, beginning the palest pink and then darkening to a medium pink.

Brass Buttons - Platts Black

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.

Brunnera - Silver Heart

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. 

Bugleweed - Burgundy Glow

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

Carpet Daisy - Silver Kisses

Gray lacy foliage gives way to white daisy flowers which completely cover the plant. 

Cypress, Russian - Celtic Pride

Cypress, Russian - Celtic Pride

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

Evening Primrose - Ozark Sundrops

Large, bell shaped, canary yellow blossoms with a crepe like texture appear above the rich green foliage.

Geranium, Perennial - Kelly Anne

Geranium, Perennial - Kelly Anne

 Bowl-shaped, bright pink flowers with white centres above lobed, marbled, dark green leaves.

Geranium, Perennial - Summer Skies

Geranium, Perennial - Summer Skies

 Soft violet-blue, double-petaled blooms open on lovely upright, downy stems, featuring distinctive, dark veins. Bloom centres have a touch of greenish white providing a dramatic contrast.

Bergenia - Dark Damsel

Bergenia - Dark Damsel

Showy vivid pink flower clusters top neat compact mounds of

leathery dark purplish-green foliage in early spring. Blooms are

reminiscent of cherry blossoms

Bergenia - Pink Dragonfly

Bergenia - Pink Dragonfly

Showy bright pink flower clusters with darker pink throats atop neat compact mounds of leathery dark green foliage.

Brunnera - Hadspen Cream

Brunnera - Hadspen Cream

Strikingly beautiful brunnera with light green leaves and wide irregular creamy yellow margins.

Brunnera - Silver Spear

Brunnera - Silver Spear

They have attractive, coarse, heart-shaped leaves in spring with sprays of small blue or white flowers carried on wiry stems.

Candytuft - Snow Cone

Candytuft - Snow Cone

Features cone shaped white flowers and a longer bloom time.

Cotoneaster - Bearberry

Cotoneaster - Bearberry

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

Deutzia - Nikko

Deutzia - Nikko

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

Foam Flower - Heart Leaf

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

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.

Hardy Ice Plant - Golden Wonders

Hardy Ice Plant - Golden Wonders

Daisy shaped 2 inch flowers are bright yellow blooming all year.

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