GENERAL
A fascinating groundcover featuring rich pink tubular flowers in early spring and deep green needle-like foliage, ideal for poor soils, also great for massing in the garden; requires organic highly acidic soil, full sun and absolutely no standing water Kramer's...
Fetching blue star-shaped flowers cover this dense ground-hugging perennial; absolutely must have a well-drained, sandy soil to survive; makes an ideal rock or alpine garden addition. Grace Ward Lithodora is an herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth....
Wooly Thyme is smothered in stunning shell pink flowers at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. Its attractive tiny tomentose round leaves remain olive green in colour throughout the year. Wooly Thyme is a dense herbaceous...
Japanese Spurge is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition. This plant...
Red Creeping Thyme is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect. This plant will require occasional maintenance...
A variety with spikes of purple bell-shaped flowers; striking fiery red tips in spring; very colorful groundcover, flowers throughout summer; very particular about growing conditions, needs acidic organic soil, will die in anything else Flamingo Heather is a multi-stemmed evergreen...
Elfin Creeping Thyme is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect. This plant will require occasional maintenance...
A dense groundcover variety, with narrow green needle-like foliage and pretty mauve-lilac flowers in spring on a low spreading form; leaves are a mainstay for cooking and as garnish, wonderful to grow in a container or rock garden Trailing Rosemary...
One of the best low spreading groundcovers, featuring white flowers in spring and showy coral pink fruit in fall; evergreen leaves require adequate snow cover or protection from winter sun and wind in exposed locations Coral Beauty Cotoneaster is a...
Green Sheen Japanese Spurge is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition....
A popular evergreen groundcover, exceptional performance in deep shade, dislikes the hot sun; dense and low growing, interesting white flowers in spring, thick green leaves; prefers highly organic, acidic soils, does well beneath mature shade trees. Green Carpet Japanese Spurge...
A variety with spikes of pale crimson bell-shaped flowers, also colorful summer foliage of gold-orange and red in the fall; flowers throughout summer; very particular about growing conditions, needs acidic organic soil, will die in anything else Hoyerhagen Heather is...
White Moss Thyme is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect. This plant will require occasional maintenance...
One of the very best groundcovers for deep shade, featuring showy white flowers held over lustrous dark green evergreen foliage; does well in sun or deep shade, quickly forms a dense mat, even grows well under mature trees Bowles Periwinkle...
A lovely variety with spikes of pink bell-shaped double flowers from summer through fall; makes a great, colorful groundcover; very particular about growing conditions, and must have acidic organic soil to thrive County Wicklow Heather is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub...
White Meidiland Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition....
A groundcover form of cherry laurel; produces showy, fragrant, white flowers, and black fruit over glossy evergreen leaves; takes pruning very well; looks great in mixed borders with taller shrubs Mount Vernon Laurel is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with...
Common Periwinkle is an herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition. This is a...
White Periwinkle is an herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition. This is a...
Extremely aromatic and profuse bright blue-violet flowers will re-bloom if pruned after flowering; a neat compact form ideal for containers and rock gardens. Thumbelina Leigh Lavender is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. It lends an extremely...