Groundcover perennials - plants number 1 for the garden with excellent decorative properties, in addition, they prevent drying of the soil and the growth of weeds. These plants are unpretentious, do not need special care, grow well in the shade and in the sun, and the root system of the groundcover does not grow roots in depth, but in breadth, as a result they form a beautiful natural carpet. Their leaves and shoots are good on their own, and during flowering, these plants look completely luxurious.
Ground cover plants for the garden are represented by different types - these are perennials, and vines, and ornamental grass, and bulbous, and undersized shrubs.
Composition of varieties of young in a flowerpot - plants do not bloom, but look very impressive due to the amazing shape of the leaves and their different colors
Use of Groundcover in Garden Design
Due to the high decorativeness, ground covers are widely used by modern summer residents - they can be used to beautifully decorate miniature compositions - used as a background to create an alpine slide, planted between rocks in rockeries, they look beautiful along paths, and on flower beds in combination with other colors.
For large open spaces, large plants of this type, for example, rogers, are more suitable. In small areas, cloves, sedum varieties, lilies of the valley and other miniature ground covers look great.
Here are some tips on how to plant beautiful groundcover in the garden:
- plant ground cover perennial flowers of different species in groups so that the colors of the leaves, their inflorescences, height and shape contrast with each other;
- plants of one species look picturesque, planted in large groups or as a frame of a flower bed;
- when planting, keep in mind that the groups will quickly grow wide, connecting with each other and forming a real living carpet;
- it is important to control the population and the area occupied by the group, if you do not plan to soon occupy the territory allotted for other flowers.
As mentioned above, caring for the soil protectors is very simple. Every year in spring, plants need to be mulched and weed. At the end of the season, shoots and leaves that have lost their beauty are removed. Plants are unpretentious, therefore, whether every gardener decides whether to feed them and in what quantity, according to the situation.
The best ground cover perennials
Option # 1 - sedum (stonecrop)
It is a drought tolerant perennial groundcover flowering plant. There are types of sedum that can be successfully combined by planting in the garden. The plant is perfect for creating an alpine hill, both in terms of decorative properties and in terms of conditions - it grows well in dry soil.
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Sedum blooms so abundantly that even leaves are not visible. But the leaves of this plant, any of its varieties, have a high decorativeness, the plant is unpretentious and widely used, popularly called “carpet”
Very beautiful shrub sedum with pink or raspberry flowers. It can be used for group plantings on the flowerbed, lawn, to create mixborders, in soil vases, rockeries and discounts.
Semi-shrubby sedum - a luxurious bush to decorate the garden, looks exotic and very attractive. Looks good in combination with greenery or in solitary landings on gravel along tracks
Option # 2 - young (sempervivum)
This is a plant of the genus Crassulaceae with a beautiful rosette of dense leaves, in shape resembling a rose. It is also called a stone rose.
Sempervivum - a beautiful stone rose. Even with the help of a single plant, you can create a catchy, attractive composition
There were many varieties of young - with different shapes and colors of leaves. The flowering time of the plant is June-August. Its flowers are not inferior in beauty to the leaves - these are beautiful inflorescences with lilac or pink flowers.
Young flowers are as good as leaves. And during the flowering period, and when it ends, the young growth looks original, and this unpretentious plant can grow in any part of the garden. It looks especially good in flowerpots if you plant several varieties in one container
Option # 3 - Saxifrages
The saxifrage is capable of creating picturesque bryophytes or patches with beautiful small flowers in the garden. Like most ground covers, there are many species of this plant. The saxifrage seems to have been created in order to decorate with its appearance, to revive groups of stones.
The most common types of saxifrage are saxifrage-juvenile, colearis, cotyledon (bogwort), saxifrage mossy, and saxifrage magnificent.
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The mossy hummock among the stones formed by the saxifrager looks original and attracts attention. Use it to create compositions using stones.
It’s not for nothing that the saxifrage got its name - it seems that the flowers break stones, sprouting between the cracks, talking about the eternal secret of life
Option # 4 - Carnation
Carnation is a semi-shruby groundcover with elegant delicate flowers. Flowers reach three centimeters in diameter, are semi-double and double, pink, white and red.
There are many varieties of cloves, but cirrus is one of the most interesting. Fancy petals intertwine, forming a thin web
Luxurious terry cloves are good in solitary landings, look very nice in a gravel garden, among pebbles and rubble, on decorative sandy embankments
The plant loves moist soil and good lighting. Gardeners often grow it in rock gardens.
Option # 5 - Spicy and Aromatic Herbs
This includes lemon balm, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage. Fragrant medicinal herbs not only decorate your garden, but also allow you to prepare delicious healthy tea. They all bloom beautifully in June-July, have decorative leaves that look beautiful on the flowerbed and along the path. Sage is especially good, its bright blue and purple high arrows will decorate a bright corner in the garden.
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Sage has excellent decorative properties. It blooms for a long time, decorating meadows and clearings in nature. In a sunny area, this plant will decorate your garden
Option # 6 - periwinkle small (vinca) and large
This unpretentious plant, capable of growing in one place for up to six years, forms a carpet of soft blue flowers and elegant (sometimes with a white edging) leaves on the ground. Recently, varieties of periwinkle with pink, raspberry and red flowers have been used to decorate flower beds. Periwinkle is notable for the fact that it grows very quickly, displacing even weeds. It grows well in the shade, on rocky soil. Using a periwinkle, you can create beautiful rabatki, plant it to create a carpet under the trees, along the paths near the curbs.
The classic periwinkle is blue, but today raspberry, white and red flowers are increasingly used in garden decor and flower beds, making it possible to create beautiful compositions from one periwinkle
A large periwinkle is a shrub, it is less common in gardens, its flowers are larger, reaching five centimeters in diameter.
a variety of large periwinkle with decorative leaves. Looks good in solitary landings near the fence, along the tracks
Option # 7 - Looser
Coin meadow tea or loosestrife can be used both as an ampel and a groundcover.
A beautiful composition with an ampel loosestrife in a flowerpot will decorate any place in the garden - both open space and a nook
The bushes of dotted loosestrife form beautiful compositions in the garden.
The bushes of the point loosestrife perfectly decorate the track, placing the necessary accents. It can be used on a flower bed, and on an alpine hill.
Option # 8 - awl-shaped phlox
This is one of the most beautiful soil protectors. In the Japanese park of Hitsuzhiyama, one of the main attractions is the field of flowering awl-shaped phloxes, striking in their beauty.
The magnificent glades of flowering awl-shaped phloxes in Hitsuzhiyama park temporarily make you forget about reality. Create a clearing of these wonderful flowers in your garden - in May it will be the most beautiful place in the garden
Raspberry, blue and white colors alternate and look incredible against the blue sky. Of course, you cannot create such beauty in your own area because of its small area, but a small clearing, flowerbed, planting at the border of awl-shaped phloxes of one or several colors will fill the garden with harmony and bright colors. Phlox blooms for about a month, flowering begins in the second half of May.
Ground cover species of juniper
Creeping and undersized varieties of this coniferous plant are grown by gardeners as ground cover. Juniper bushes planted in the corners or in the center of the flower bed framed by flowers give the flower bed exoticism, its evergreen branches refresh the landscape. Lying juniper looks good both planted alone on the lawn, and in the company of thuja and other conifers.
The recumbent juniper in the gravel garden also looks very good. Over time, the young plant will create a luxurious green carpet, beautifully shading gray stones
We examined the most common and unpretentious soil protectors for the garden. Even such a small list of perennial groundcover flowering plants will allow you to create beautiful corners in the garden. Each owner has his own preferences, his own understanding of the surrounding beauty of nature, and today there is every opportunity to make your garden unique, using flowering and not blooming ground cover perennials, coniferous, ampelous, annual flowers and other cultures - all this is in sale in a wide price range.
