Plant Profile: Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis)
Karen This evergreen shrub is native to coastal California and Oregon and is found in chaparral but is often used as a ground cover and to stabilize slopes. It is a…
Plant Profile: Creeping Mahonia (Mahonia reptans)
This low growing suckering evergreen shrub is native to northwest America from British Columbia and Alberta to Arizona and New Mexico and west to California. The shiny blue-green leaves are…
Plant Profile: Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
This native of eastern North America, wintergreen is a woody evergreen shrub that grows three to ten inches tall, spreading by stolons about 4-6” per year to form a mat.…
Plant Profile: Rose Daphne (Daphne cneorum)
Native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, this evergreen shrub is known for the fragrance of its blooms. Clusters of small bright pink flowers are produced in April…
Plant Profile: Bearberry Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster dammeri)
This evergreen shrub native to central China is one of the best broadleaf evergreens for a groundcover. It offers attractive leaves, small fragrant white flowers in spring, bright red berries…
Flowering Vines for Ground Covers
Chances are that if you are growing vines they are growing up on a wall, fence or trellis. But many vines can be used as ground covers where they will…
Plant Profile: Olympic St. John’s Wort (Hypericum olympicum)
There are over 200 species of Hypericum, from shrubs, to sub-shrubs, to herbaceous perennials, and Hypericum olympicum is an excellent one for rock gardens. A native of southeast Europe and…
Plant Profile: Edmee Gold Boxleaf Honeysuckle (Lonicera nitida ‘Briloni’)
The name “honeysuckle” probably conjures up visions either of humming-bird magnets or invasive pests and this honeysuckle is neither. Edmee gold boxleaf honeysuckle is grown primarily for its beautiful chartreuse…
Plant Profile: Two-Row Stonecrop (Sedum spurium ‘Fuldaglut’)
The small rose-red, star-shaped flowers of this low-growing sedum cover the plant in late summer but until then the thick succulent, maroon-tinged, leaves are attractive. In fall when the flowers…
Plant Profile: ‘Susquehana’ Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia ‘Susquehana’)
Introduced in 2009 as part of the River Series of Tiarella cordifolia, ‘Susquehanna’ is a fast growing ground cover for shade. It’s diminutive size belies its ability to spread up…