ground cover flowers

10 low-maintenance perennials for the busy gardener! You can still have beautiful flower beds without spending a lot of time maintaining them.

Lamium (dead nettles) is a great shade perennial and ground cover that spreads rapidly and does well with little sun.

If asked to recommend one Spring flowering garden plant, I would answer with Candytuft, a pretty evergreen perennial! Here's why!

HOT and DRY. Drought tolerant Ice Plant (Delosperma) is right at home along this cement curbside. Few sun perennials can take such less-than-forgiving locations yet still provide months of bloom all summer long.

Oricat de frumos ar arata o curte cu un gazon bine ingrijit, paleste in fata gradinilor acoperite cu adevarate covoare de flori. Iata o lista cu cele mai spectaculoase si rezistente flori perene, perfecte pentru acoperirea solului din curtea si gradina casei: 1. Sapunarita (saponaria ocymoides) este o planta acoperitoare perena, nepretentioasa, ce nu depaseste […]

This miniature thyme is fragrant, pretty, and charming. It's also incredibly useful. Only 2"-3" tall, you can walk on it (releasing its lemony aroma), tuck it between pavers in a garden path, use it as a tidy border or fill in a flower bed. It grows quickly but isn't pushy, delivers texture, fragrance, and flowers, is great for cooking, and requires almost no care. A hardy perennial in zones 4-9, Creeping Thyme has a place in almost every garden. It cascades nicely in a rockery, fills in…

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The flowers of purple heart are pretty in their own right, but it's the rich purple foliage that really steals the show.

For the ditch? Ground cover plants such as Aubrieta are excellent for steep banks - they suppress weeds, help stabilise the soil and are low maintenance.

This deer-resistant plant list is growing like Topsy. (You’ve read Uncle Tom’s Cabin , right? Dreadful book, and a slog of a r...

These low-maintenance ground covers grow thickly and spread quickly to choke out weeds.

This evergreen perennial has green leaves above and deep purple underneath and clumps as it grows. A gorgeous low border plant or ground cover that is hardy and very easy to grow.

Lantana camara (Lantana) is a mosquito repellent plant

Anisdontea scabrosa Shrub to approximately 1.8m, bearing small pink flowers. Aponogeton distachyos Commonly known as Waterblommetjies. Found in dams and ponds of the South Western Cape. Aptenia cordifolia Fast spreading, drought tolerant ground cover from the South Eastern Coast of SA. Asystasia gangetica Ground cover found mostly in the eastern parts of South Africa. Grows well under trees, but also in full sun. Barleria obtusa Shrub with soft hairy leaves. Variable height up to 2m…

Kathleen has the prettiest succulents. These remind me of the candle holders we used to put on birthday cakes, or roses made of clay... *will add names as I find them.