Ground cover - non-evergreen plants
Simple colourful planting required for a large area? Colourful plants to separate areas of the garden? Non-evergreen ground cover could be the answer for you. Roses are useful^, such as Rosa 'Flower Carpet White' standing around 75cm in height, but thorny plants could be a deterrent. For low-growing plants the choice could run from dwarf but rampageous Campanula poscharskyana, through Ladies Mantle, to Astilbes, Geranium nodosum and autumn flowering anemones for lightly shaded positions. For smaller, sunny areas lively Agastache forms could be considered. If large plants are required, dogwoods such as Cornus alba, reaching around 1.5 metres could be an option. Also, spring bulbs, dormant in summer, but which look fantastic when grown in numbers. It is a question of thinking about your needs before making the commitment.
Plants (1287)
Carex elata 'Aurea'
Bowles's golden sedge, Tufted sedge, Stiff sedge, European tussock sedge
Cornus canadensis
Creeping dogwood, Bunchberry, Crackerberry, Pudding berry, Dwarf cornel
Dicentra 'Burning Hearts'
Turkey corn, Fringed bleeding heart
Dicentra 'Ivory Hearts'
Wild bleeding heart
Dicentra 'Stuart Boothman'
Bleeding heart
Eryngium bourgatii
Pyrenean eryngyo, Bourgat's eryngo
Fallopia baldschuanica
Russian vine, Mile a minute
Festuca glauca
Blue fescue, Grey fescue, Blue sheep's fescue
Festuca glauca 'Golden Toupee'
Blue fescue, Grey fescue, Blue sheep's fescue
Gaillardia
Blanket flower, Jam tarts
Gazania
Treasure flower
Genista lydia
Lydian broom
Geranium 'Anne Thomson'
Geranium 'Johnson's Blue'
Geranium 'Old Rose'
Geranium 'Orion'
Geranium macrorrhizum
Large rooted geranium, Balkan cranesbill, Rock cranesbill, Bulgarian geranium
Geranium pratense 'Midnight Reiter'
Meadow cranesbill, Meadow geranium
Geranium sanguineum 'Max Frei'
Blood red geranium, Bloody cranesbill
Geranium wallichianum 'Buxton's Variety'
Wallich's geranium
Geum
Avens
Glandularia Seabrookes Lavender = 'Sealav'
Verbena, Vervain
Gypsophila
Baby's breath
Hakonechloa macra
Hakone grass, Urahagusa, Japanese reed grass
Helleborus
Hellebore
Hemerocallis
Day lily
Hosta
Plantain lily, Funkia
Hosta 'Empress Wu'
Plantain Iily, Funkia
Hosta 'Frances Williams'
Plantain Iily, Funkia
Hosta 'Hadspen Blue'
Plantain Iily, Funkia
Hosta 'Halcyon'
Plantain Iily, Funkia
Hosta fortunei var. aureomarginata
Renge-Giboshi, Fortune's hosta
Hosta sieboldiana var. elegans
Siebold hosta
Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon'
Fishwort
Houttuynia cordata 'Flame'
Fishwort
Hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens
Tree hydrangea
Hypericum
St John's wort, St Peter's wort
Hypericum Magical Beauty = 'Kolmbeau'
St John's wort
Hypericum Magical Red = 'Kolmred'
St John's wort
Hypericum Miracle Attraction = 'Alldiablo'
St John's wort
Hypericum Miracle Blizz = 'Allblizz'
St John's wort
Ilex
Holly
Kniphofia
Red hot poker
Leucanthemum
Oxeye daisy, Marguerite
Lobelia
Lonicera
Honeysuckle
Lonicera ligustrina var. pileata 'Moss Green'
Privet honeysuckle, Box honeysuckle