Gaining Ground Garden Design – Tough Plants for tough places
Gaining Ground Garden Design – Tough Plants for tough places
Helpful Hints
Add ground cover shrubs such as Dwarf Mountain Pine and Juniper or upright evergreens to provide winter interest
Plant Sedum, Thymus and Delosperma on rock ledges or above retaining walls to crate a cascading effect.
Create a winding path of Creeping Thyme through your ground cover garden to provide a maintenance entry without sacificing valuable planting space
If you live in a Zone 5 area, substitue the Zone 6 Santolina with Artemisia schmidtiana ‘Silver Mound’.
Gaining ground Garden Design
a. Arabis ‘Variegata’ b. Artemisia ‘silver brocade’ c. Ceratostigma plumbaginoides d. Corepsis ‘nana’ e. Delosperma nubigenum f. Dianthus ‘sternkissen’ g. Festuca ‘select’ h. Helianthemum ‘wisely primrose’ i. Nepta ‘six hills giant’ j. Phlox ‘rose cushion’ k. Santoline chamaecyparissus var. nana l. Saponaria ocymoides m. Sedum kamtschaticum n. Sedum ‘tricolor’