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 - 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

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 - First Flush Lavender
Flowers up a storm! This compact growing candytuft features masses of light lavender flower clusters in early Spring that last for weeks.
Makes a great filler for crevices in walls or between the stones of walkways. It is also effective as edging or groundcover

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.

Foamy Bells - Sweet Tea
Large mound of deeply-lobed leaves that change with the seasons.

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.

Bergenia - Dragonfly Sakura
Neat compact mounds of leathery dark green foliage topped by thick spikes in spring bearing magnificent bright pink semi-double flowers reminiscent of cherry blossoms.

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.

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

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

Hopflower - Kent Beauty
Delicate pink flowers bloom inside lavender-purple bracts for a unique display. Forms a low trailing mound of powdery blue-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
Bergenia - Angel Kiss
Soft, sweet, semi-double, white to light pink flowers in great abundance

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.

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 - 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 - 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.

Lewisia - Little Peach
Lovely apricot-peach, kissed with soft yellow blooms in late spring and again during the summer.
Long lasting flowers are great for bees and butterflies.
Good in a rock garden or as a ground cover.