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.
Bergenia - Pink Dragonfly
Showy bright pink flower clusters with darker pink throats atop neat compact mounds of leathery dark green foliage.
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
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
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.
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.
Euonymus - White Album
Geranium, Perennial - Cloud Nine
Stunning fully-double duck egg blue flowers sit above a mounding clump of handsome deeply divided green dark leaves
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
Bowl-shaped, bright pink flowers with white centres above lobed, marbled, dark green leaves.
Bellflower, Serbian
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 - Hadspen Cream
Strikingly beautiful brunnera with light green leaves and wide irregular creamy yellow margins.
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
Features cone shaped white flowers and a longer bloom time.
Carpet Daisy - Silver Kisses
Gray lacy foliage gives way to white daisy flowers which completely cover the plant.
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.
Emera
Pavement Rose. Semi double carmine pink flowers in large sprays of cupped flowers bloom continuously.
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.