For bare places under big trees, sunny slopes and other challenging places, ground cover plants provide a simple solution to add color. In addition, these plants act as a living cover to protect the soil from erosion and drought. The following low growing perennial ground cover plants can work well under various conditions without much care. The following content also has same reference value for raised garden beds.
1. Thyme
Enjoy the fresh smell of thyme at your feet in your garden. This evergreen vegetation provides fragrant leaves and pink or white flowers in spring or summer.
Name: Thyme
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and well drained soil
Dimensions: up to 10 inches high
Area: 4-9
2. Sweet Woodruff
When you need to shade the ground with plants, sweet clover is an easy choice to plant. It will even add a pleasant aroma to your yard, from leaves (which smell like fresh hay when cut or crushed) and small white flowers that appear in spring.
The spreading perennials are not vulnerable. However, when it grows under the best conditions with sufficient water, it will still become a little vigorous.
Name: Yuzhu
Growth conditions: partially to completely shaded and moist soil with good drainage
Dimensions: up to 12 inches high
Area: 4-8
3. Brass button
Brass buttons are evergreen vegetation in warm areas, providing ferns, delicate leaves and button shaped pale yellow flowers. " The leaves of Platt's Black 'variety are very dark, which is particularly striking in the surrounding light plants or boulders and other landscape landscapes. In addition, it can withstand a small amount of traffic, so as long as it can maintain stable moisture, it is a good choice between stepping stones.
Name: Leptinella squalida 'Platt's Black'
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and moist soil with good drainage
Size: 6 inches high
Area: 4-7
4. Linen
Lamium, also known as dead nettle, is a reliable and easy to care shade ground cover plant. Most types bloom throughout the summer, with clusters of pink, purple or white flowers. Even if not in full bloom, wild goats also have striking silver green leaves to illuminate the dark corners. This low maintenance perennial is a beautiful alternative to struggling lawns.
Name: spot covered film
Growth conditions: completely shaded and moist soil with good drainage
Size: 8 inches high
Area: 4-8
5. Golden Grass
Lysimachia aureate, also known as creeping Jeanne, is a fast-growing ground cover plant, which forms a mat composed of small yellow green leaves along the slender spreading stems. The color looks brightest in sufficient sunlight, but it also grows well in partial shadows.
Please note that this perennial plant will soon get out of control, so it is better to plant it in a controlled place, such as a bed with concrete or other hard landscapes on all sides. It is considered invasive in some parts of the country, so check it for problems before planting.
Name: Lysimachianummularia 'Aurea'
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight, partial shadow and moist soil
Size: 3 inches high
Area: 3-7
6. Epimedium
Ryshade may be a thorny landscaping problem. Fortunately, Epimedium grandiflorum thrives under these conditions. There are many excellent varieties, but some beautiful varieties include "Pierre's Purple", "Sulphureum" and "Lifee".
Product name: Epimedium
Growth conditions: partially completely shaded and well drained soil
Size: 8 inches high
Area: 3-9
7. Lily in the valley
In addition to the fragrant spring flowers, lily of the valley is one of the most easily planted ground cover plants. It is very suitable for the shade under the big trees in the backyard, because it can well withstand dry conditions. But beware of it: it may be a powerful communicator.
Name: Lily of the valley
Growth conditions: cool and well drained soil
Size: 8 inches high
Area: 3-8
8. Raspberry
A native ground cover plant that grows well in the shade. Bunchberry has lovely small white flowers in spring and bright red fruits in autumn. Autumn leaves will also show a festive bronze purple.
Name: Canadian dogwood
Growth conditions: completely shaded and well drained soil
Dimensions: up to 6 inches high
Area: 2-7
9. Wild Ginger
Wild ginger is highly praised for its smooth heart-shaped leaves and vigorous growth. Although it is not intrusive, it will not waste time to form a considerable colony in your landscape.
Name: Asarum
Growth conditions: partially completely shaded and well drained soil
Size: up to 4 inches high
Area: 4-8
10. Women's cape
This low maintenance perennial plant is the favorite of the farmhouse garden, and it provides a unique enjoyment: the fine hairs on the fan-shaped leaves shine with water drops in the morning sun. Lady's ants bloom from late spring to early summer, producing clusters of tiny yellow green flowers. This elegant ground cover can be sown around, so if you want to make your planting more closed, you must let the flowers go nowhere.
Name: Alchemy
Growth conditions: sunny, partially shaded and humid soil with good drainage
Dimensions: up to 18 inches high
Area: 4-7
11. Sedum Sedum
The low crassulaceae plants may not produce bright colors like their tall cousins, but this super low maintenance, drought resistant ground cover plant is difficult to make mistakes in sunny places. The two most tenacious creeping varieties are Sedumacre and Sedumkamtschaticum (shown here).
Name: Sedum L.
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and well drained soil
Size: 3 inches high
Area: 4-9
12. Hens and chickens
The perfect companion of sedum plants, hens and chickens, it is an excellent succulent plant in rockery gardens, stone walls or sidewalk gaps. Hens and chicks are one of the ground cover plants with the lowest maintenance cost. Just planting and enjoying.
Product name: Long grass variety
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and well drained soil
Size: 4 inches high
Area: 3-9
13. Soap Grass
Soap grass is a low maintenance perennial plant, which is worth planting in more gardens. It can be made into beautiful cushion like ground cover plants. It will open many pink flowers full of stars in summer, almost completely covered with green leaves. ' MaxFrei 'is a variety with long flowering time, which lasts until autumn.
Name: Saponaria x lempergii 'MaxFrei'
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight to partial shade and well drained soil
Dimensions: up to 1 foot high
Area: 3-7
14. Bright Evening Primrose
The gorgeous evening primrose is a kind of ground cover plant with excellent heat resistance, drought resistance and moisture resistance, which is found in the southwest of the United States and Mexico. In midsummer, it will open cup shaped pink flowers in the evening or cloudy days to repay you. Although it is easy to grow, it can spread actively under ideal conditions, so please make sure it has space to walk.
Name: Evening Primrose
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and well drained soil
Size: 2 feet high
Area: 5-9
15. Armenia
A charming plant not seen enough in the garden, armeria provides low grass leaves and clusters of bright pink or white flowers in late spring and early summer. For additional interest, look for 'Rubrifolia', which offers leaves in Burgundy tones.
Name: Armeriamaritima
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and well drained soil
Dimensions: up to 8 inches high
Area: 3-9
16. Creeping phlox
A slow growing and spreading perennial and creeping phlox forms a dense narrow green leaf pad. This easy to care ground cover plant will stand out when it is covered with pink, white, purple, red and two-color flowers in spring. It is very suitable for trimming sidewalks and sidewalks. The creeping phlox will not become a noisy neighbor of tulips, daffodils and other attractive spring bulbs.
Name: Fluke
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and moist soil with good drainage
Dimensions: up to 8 inches high
Area: 3-9
17. Poor strawberries
Native to eastern North America, barren strawberries form dense clumps interspersed with strawberry like leaves. In spring, they will have small yellow flowers, and then produce inedible fruits.
Name: Waldsteiniafaragarioides
Growth conditions: sufficient sunshine, cool and moist, well drained soil
Size: 1 foot high
Area: 4-8
18. Veronica prone
This perennial plant is a higher version of the famous veronica ground cover plant. Its beautiful blue spring flowers stand in sharp contrast to the golden leaves of varieties such as' Trehane 'and' Goldwell '.
Name: Veronicaprostrata
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and well drained soil
Dimensions: up to 1 foot high
Area: 4-8
19. Bloody Crane billed Bird
The colorful Bloody Crane is named after its bright red leaves in autumn. Many varieties have blue and purple flowers. They bloom in May and June and then sporadically throughout the rest of the growing season. This low maintenance ground cover plant spreads slowly, but if you like, it will eventually form a large area.
Name: Pelargonium
Growth conditions: from sufficient sunlight to partial shade in well drained soil
Size: 1 foot high
Area: 4-8
20. Japanese Forest and Grass
Ornamental grass is a beautiful way to add texture to the landscape. Low plants are excellent ground cover plants, and Japanese forest grass is one of the best plants. It uses shiny gold and yellow green colors, and forms a flowing mound close to the ground.
Name: Hakone Grass
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight to shade partially in humid and well drained soil
Dimensions: up to 2 feet high
Area: 5-9
21. Plumbagrass
Leadwort is an excellent low maintenance ground cover plant, which can be used for late season performance. Leadwort began to bloom beautiful electric blue flowers at the end of summer and lasted until the first frost. Then, in autumn, the leaves turn to gorgeous Burgundy red.
Name: Ceratostigmaplugaginides
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight to partial shade and well drained soil
Dimensions: up to 12 inches high
Area: 5-9
22. Mondor Grass
Mondor grass is the favorite of southern gardeners. It is a tough, drought resistant ground cover plant, and is not afraid of high temperature and humidity. In addition, this low growing perennial plant can tolerate a little human traffic. It forms a bunch of banded, grass like green leaves; The variety of dark leaves adds a moody hue to the garden and makes a pleasant contrast with the plants with lighter leaves. Although the appearance and name are different, Mondor is more closely related to lily.
Name: Ophiopogon japonicus
Growth conditions: cool, moist and well drained soil
Size: up to 24 inches high, depending on the variety
Area: 6-10
23. Summer Snow
Since spring, clusters of crystal clear white flowers float on the evergreen leaves covered with snow in summer. This drought resistant ground cover plant adds charming colors to stone walls, terraces or rockery gardens. Snow in summer can also handle a variety of soil types.
Name: Chaetoceros
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and well drained soil
Size: 3 inches high
Area: 3-7
24. Sheep ears
Children especially like the hairy leaves of this classic perennial plant. Soft and silver ears of lambs form low mounds. The same fuzzy spikes of purple to pink flowers in spring and summer. If you don't want this plant to sow by itself, you must kill the flowers. The excellent varieties worth looking for include "cotton ball", "big ear" and "primrose heron".
Name: Byzantine Shuisu
Growth conditions: sufficient sunlight and well drained soil
Dimensions: up to 18 inches high
Area: 4-7
25. Iris capitis
Sometimes called woodland iris, the crested iris is native to eastern North America and can be found in various forms and blue and white patterns. Once established, they will become carefree and pleasant ground cover plants in shady woodland gardens.
Name: Iris
Growth conditions: partial to complete shade in humid and well drained soil
Size: 9 inches high
Area: 3-9
