![]() ![]() Sun or shade there should be something here to inspire your creativity. For something beguilingly delicate, despite its dense and evergreen habit, there is the versatile Muehlenbeckia complexa, for loose cascades of enchanting ellipsoidal little leaves. This Florida native can tolerate wet soils and attracts. Its blossoms, typically white or pink, can thrive in. Frogfruit is a fast growing groundcover with white and purple flowers. The fleshier and more exotic Lampranthus spectabilis is tactile and voluminous with masses of little icy-bright purple flowers. Other suggestions for harmonious combinations with pink or purple-flowered plants include four oclocks (Mirabilis jalapa), lantana, scaveola, vinca (. Arabis: This ultra-dense flowering ground cover provides fantastic coverage for gaps in your garden bed. Other ‘carpeting shrublets’ (to quote Hillier’s manual), such as Pachysandra, can be nurtured to fill space or trail elegantly. Described as a well-behaved ground cover, its vigorous growth quickly fills bare garden spaces without becoming a nuisance. ![]() This beautiful perennial evergreen ground cover has mat-forming foliage and produces colorful bell-shaped blue or purple flowers throughout the summer. The rich purple flowers cascade down and the aptly named Purple Cascade forms a lovely mat of foliage and flowers, although it is relatively short-lived. Wayne Roderick form of the Seaside Daisy plant with monkey flowers as. Bellflower is a superb spreading plant that quickly covers the ground. It’s dense, compact, and possibly the neatest ivy. Deschampsia caespitosa, Tufted hairgrass is a perennial bunch grass from mountain meadows. Our Hedra helix “Tres Coupe’ is ideal for this. Cut shapes into it to frame larger and taller sculptural forms that will also help to shade it. Vinca vine is a flowering ground cover for sun or shade. Why not allow Euonymus fortunei kewensis to grow and mat together, and then clip into subtle ebbing waves? Ignore your inclination to go vertical with ivy and train it horizontally. Sweet Romance Lavender has large purple blooms from early summer into fall. The small pink blooms of the common soapwort make it an especially beautiful ground cover Photo: Ritwik/ A shrubby milkwort blooms in purple. Ajuga reptans, commonly called bugleweed, is a dense, rapidly spreading, mat-forming ground cover which features shiny, dark green leaves. Don’t be boring here – think of ground cover as a creative opportunity and not just a functional form of weed control.
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