Ground Covers - Displayed by Common Name in Ascending Order

In this selection, plants form a bushy mound of dark green leaves, bearing sprays of cherry-red flowers in mid to late spring. Although they will take a couple of years to reach a mature size, plants are long-lived and very sturdy. Old leaves should be pruned to the ground in late winter to show the flowers to best effect. Drought tolerant once established. Plants may be divided in early spring or late summer. Beautiful bronze foliage color in winter.

One of the best cultivars available today as well as the toughest Epimedium for dry shade, even under large, thirsty trees. From mid to late spring, clusters of small flowers with pale yellow sepals and primrose-yellow petals hover just above the foliage.

Laurentia fluviatilis is fast growing groundcover, and is an excellent choice for both for the open woodland garden and between stepping stones. Makes a 2" tall mat of round, green leaves and equally tiny light blue flowers in spring. Tolerates heavy foot traffice, and prefers moist soil.

Leptinella is a fast growing colorful ground cover that is easy to grow and makes an ideal lawn replacement for small areas. In late spring, the carpet is covered with tiny yellow button-like flowers that contrast nicely with the two-toned foliage.

‘Buttered Popcorn’ is a fantastic creeping ground cover that does best in full sun to partial shade. Foliage is chartreuse to gold in color, are deeply cut, and serrated and make a nice backdrop for the bright yellow buttercup flowers. Blooms grace the plant in mid- to late- spring.

A blanket of pure white all season long! Large clusters of flowers carpet the narrow, evergreen leaves from spring to fall. Evergreen foliage is dark green and semi-glossy, making for an attractive appearance all season. Nice alternative to lobelia.

A blanket of pure white! Large clusters of flowers carpet the narrow, evergreen leaves from mid to late spring. The profile of this variety is shorter and wider than our other Iberis offerings. Evergreen foliage is dark green and semi-glossy, making for an attractive appearance all season.

Dark-as-night, shimmering foliage with gorgeously scalloped purple leaves that are larger than ‘Mahogony’ and darker than ‘Catlin's Giant’. A knockout in patio pots, combos, and as a striking groundcover accent with white, gold, or light-colored plants.

Fantastic tricolored foliage in shades of creamy-white, rose-burgundy, and dark green make this ajuga different than all the others. In the fall, the mature leaves turn a deep bronze while the newer growth takes on a rose tone.

Twice the size and impact of most other Ajugas with large, ruffled edges and evergreen purple-green foliage with a metallic shine. Blue flowers in early spring.

Dwarf, spreading habit with unusually narrow green foliage overlaid with chocolate brown highlights. Short spikes of blue flowers in early spring.

Vigorous, fast-growing ground cover. Attractive under trees, in rock gardens, for edging. Prefers moist soil.

Shiny golden foliage brightens any garden or container; great combination filler plant

Maidenhair vine is a stunning houseplant. It creates a carpet of small, shiny, dark green leaves and is excellent for creating a groundcover effect under taller houseplants. Because it has a creeping or trailing habit, maidenhair vine is also excellent for hanging baskets or growing along a mantle, where you can train it to beautifully spread across the surface.

Maidenhair vine is perfect for any indoor style. It's classically charming, yet looks right at home if you like a more contemporary, formal, or even eclectic look.

This British selection forms a spreading patch of small leaves, brightly marbled with light and dark green, chartreuse and silver. Clusters of mauve-pink flowers appear in spring then continue on and off until fall. Fairly tolerant of dry shade, once established. Trim or mow back in late winter. Stems will root into the ground where they touch, and any new plants that form can be easily moved in spring or fall. Also easily divided. Evergreen.

Trailing, mounded variety has silver leaves edged in green with pink-purple flowers.

Beautiful variegated foliage with a silver overlay. Short spiked, clear, pale pink flowers - May to July.

A frothy confection of silver and green foliage with cotton candy pink flowers; heat tolerant.

A frothy confection of silver and green foliage with lavender-purple flowers; heat tolerant.

When you add white flowers to the frosted leaves of Lamium, you have ‘White Nancy’, the ideal way to add light and life to a shady garden. A glowing ground cover and a fine companion for any and all shade-loving plants.

Nearly all-silver leaves with narrow, blue-green margins are a lovely backdrop for the pure white, hooded flowers which are produced from mid spring to early summer. This variety is particularly dense and low.

Cascading, fan-shaped foliage makes Silver Falls™ a fun component in hanging baskets, tall containers and window boxes. This vigorous, low-maintenance variety with silvery hue adds great groundcover when planted near the edge of a raised bed or rock wall.

A highly popular groundcover, Wild Ginger's large heart-shaped leaves can be 6" in diameter, and its sturdy rootstocks create a dense network that creeps to cover woodland slopes. Once established, a cover of Wild Ginger can fend off Garlic Mustard and other invasive in the woodland environment. As a woodland native this deer resistant plant enjoys shade and tolerates a variety of soil types. An attractive dark red flower, usually hidden from view by the foliage, blooms in early spring and fades fairly quickly.

One of the finest members of the ginger family. The large, dark green, pointed leaves are elegantly mottled with silver throughout. In early spring, you'll find 2", dark purple flowers underneath the large leaves at soil level.

A creeping, moss-like, evergreen groundcover that can be used as a replacement for lawn in cool-summer regions. Irish Moss is especially beautiful growing between pavers and flagstones on a path or wall.

Our classic, fan-shaped, silvery green English Ivy. Handsome triangular green leaves marked with creamy white. A strong-growing, trailing variety that's great for baskets, containers, or as a groundcover.

Golden yellow leaves have a green margin and irregular green splotches. This triangular leaf-shaped ivy is dainty, elegant, and compact. The variegated leaves feature on overall lemon-yellow tone with gray splotches and an emerald-green rim.

Softly mottled gray-green leaves on vining growth are irregularly edged with creamy white. A great trailing addition to shaded plantings. Will also grow in higher light situations with adequate water.

This evergreen vine or ground cover has small to medium ivy or lobed shaped green leaves with a heart-shaped base. It attaches itself by aerial rootlets to walls and other surfaces such as rockeries or trees.

Hedera helix ‘White Ripple’ is a fast-growing ivy, bearing pale green leaves with a pretty white margin. It’s ideal for brightening up a shady corner, using as ground cover or trailing over the edge of a large container, in full sun or partial shade.

A superior evergreen groundcover with a very low, spreading habit and attractive soft green foliage. Use on slopes for groundcover or erosion control, along walkways, and in borders or rock gardens. Drapes nicely over retaining walls. A very durable landscape specimen that tolerates heat, cold, and drought.

Low rich green mounding junipers are the perfect choice for erosion control coverage on cut slopes and natural banks where run-off is a problem. This plant is perfect for nestling landscape boulders or softening the top edge of a masonry retaining wall. Makes an excellent winter structural plant for mixed borders that tend to look too barren in the colder months. Makes a useful problem solver in native and wild gardens when arranged in naturalistic compositions. As with most junipers it is welcome in Japanese gardens either natural or pruned into creative bonsai forms.

A groundcover that provides interest in late summer, after many other perennials are finished blooming. The foliage is green during the summer, then turns a beautiful bronzy-red in fall. It produces beautiful gentian-blue blooms from late summer to frost.

Lirope is a unique, evergreen groundcover with wide, dark green, strappy leaves and a fountain-like habit. Delightful, lilac-purple flowers resembling grape hyacinths are displayed above the foliage in late summer.

A popular variety of liriope valued for its relatively wide, strappy, green and white (sometimes yellow) variegated, grass-like foliage. From midsummer into fall, lilac purple flowers similar to grape hyacinths are produced.

Mat-forming, low-creeping groundcover with diminutive, bright green leaves produces purple-blue flowers, spotted red and yellow, in early summer. Withstands moderate foot traffic and competes successfully with grass. Very vigorous selection.

Exciting and versatile, 4 Luck Coco Mint is an excellent component plant for containers with a great amount of diversity in colors. It grows low and spreads, then with maturity cascades over the edge of containers and baskets. It performs as an excellent groundcover because the stems will develop from the plant base under the soil, filling a small area in a single growing season. With that stated, trifolium is not categorized as an invasive plant.

This selection of the common creeping clover makes a handsome edging or groundcover plant. It was named for the number of four-leaved clovers usually found but there also may be three leaves. Leaves are three-toned, dark green with burgundy red triangles and silver gray on the outside. A very nice filler plant in tubs or mixed containers. Because of its vigorous habit, do not plant next to slow-growing alpine plants that might get smothered. Trim back hard in midsummer to rejuvenate the foliage, if plants begin to look scruffy. Easily divided in spring or fall. May be used as a lawn substitute and mowed at any time to the desired height.

Black Four-Leaf Clover. A vigorous perennial with charming leaves and small white flowers that bloom in summer.

Canary yellow, mildly fragrant, 3 inch wide flowers are produced in great numbers over dark green, lanceolate leaves from early thru midsummer. Following the substantial blooms, seed pods are produced which are beautiful in dried arrangements.

A replacement for ‘Emerald Pink’, this creeping phlox has a richer rose color and larger flowers.

Masses of purple-blue flowers cover mats of deep-green foliage in spring. Plants look stunning on a bank or tumbling over a wall, and , like all Moss PInks, make a striking ground cover for a sunny spot.

An outstanding performer! Deep pink, fragrant flowers bloom so profusely they nearly hide the foliage. Remarkably heat and drough tolerant.

Mat-forming variety with loads of lavender blue flowers in spring. Tumbles beautifully over rocks, slopes, and banks. Makes a gorgeous border edging.

Lavender-purple flowers witha dark purple eye in mid- to late-spring.

In spring, this cultivar becomes a sheet of rose-red flowers that draws the eye like a magnet. Interplant with pure-white Tulips for a combination that will make your jaw drop.

A profusion of flowers carpet the garden. Creates a colorful spring show in mass plantings or with spring bulbs.

This little creeping perennial forms a flat carpet of tiny green leaves, smothered with starry bright-blue flowers all summer long. Ideal for planting between paving stones, in the rock garden or using as a lawn substitute. Even worth growing as an annual in colder areas. Plants are easily ripped apart into small pieces to make new plantings, and this should be done in early spring. Prefers evenly moist soil.

Dense, rounded tufts form a soft, mossy carpet of yellow-green foliage sprinkled with white flowers.

Carpet Angel Shasta Daisy is the first and only ground cover shasta daisy in the world. It amazingly grows only 3-4″ tall yet spreads 20″ wide! Carpet Angel Daisy shows off incredible basal branching producing hordes of flowers in summer. Its prostrate habit creates a carpet appearance. Unique, one-of-a-kind pure white flowers add to its considerable appeal. The fascinating blooms sit tightly on the foliage. A truly breeding breakthrough and revolutionary selection!

Russian cypress is a hardy, low growing evergreen for sun or shade, but the species is often plagued with tip die-back. This new selection solves that as it has superior disease resistance and winter color. Celtic Pride's green foliage turns an attractive russet color in winter. This is an excellent, very cold-hardy plant with better shade tolerance than junipers.

A silver-grey carpet of pointed leaves covered liberally in early summer with masses of crisp white silky flowers with an almost luminous quality. Foliage is a useful, year-round contrast to stronger colors.

Saponaria is a sprawling plant which forms a nice carpet of semi-evergreen foliage. Small sprays of pink flowers appear in early summer. It works well in a rock garden, as a groundcover, or between stepping stones on a path.

A classic beauty for the woodland garden. Grown mostly for its clean variegated, soft green foliage which turns yellow in fall, Solomon's Seal is a charming plant for the shade. On quiet spring evenings, the flowers exude a subtle lily-like fragrance.

Thymus 'Purple Carpet' is an ornamental flowering evergreen (in mild winters) subshrub offering 3 seasons to year-round interest, blooming profusely in late spring, its foliage turning dark purple in fall. Borne in terminal whorls, the small, 2-lipped, tubular flowers are shades of purple. Nectar rich, they attract bees and butterflies to the garden. Small, fuzzy, dark green leaves are aromatic, having a pleasing spicy scent, especially when crushed.

Cold Hardy, easy to grow, and low maintenance, 'Purple Carpet' creeping thyme grows best in a sunny location with average to dry, well-draining soils, having a neutral to alkaline pH. The plant not only tolerates drought, salt, and poor soils but thrives in sandy, gritty, or rocky soils. It does not tolerate wet soils, however, which may cause root rot. It is deer and rabbit resistant and relatively pest free.

A sun-loving herb valued as an ornamental groundcover. Forms a dense, flat mat of evergreen, dark green leaves that are smothered in bright magenta-red flowers from early thru midsummer. In fall, the foliage turns a beautiful bronze.

Soft and silvery, Woolly Thyme is in a class by itself. Tightly knit, it makes a great filler for in between pavers or along borders. It rarely flowers which makes it a good choice for those allergic to bees. It is the grayest of all the thymes.

This Veronica groundcover produces a carpet of blue-eyed white flowers in spring. Low growing with glossy, evergreen foliage. Works well as a companion plant with spring bulbs.

Dark green leaves with unevenly variegated yellow-green centers.

The quintessential component plant with green and white variegated leaves and pale lavender flowers.

Dark green leaves with creamy white center and violet spring flowers.

Not just another Euonymus! A sport of ‘Emerald n’ Gold’ with big round leaves displaying a thick deep golden-yellow edge. Very showy. Yellow fruit and orange seed are very showy and persistent. Excellent hardiness, too.