Groundcover herbaceous crops are among the most common plants that can decorate any area and beautify any area in the garden. In a short time, they can become a dense and beautiful openwork carpet and close empty gaps or glades. Such a green veil grows very quickly and does not require special care. Plants of this species are unpretentious and undemanding, but beautiful in their appearance and amazing in their flowering.
Ground covers belong to perennial plants, which from year to year transform the garden for the better, protect the land from weeds, help flower growers fill the unsightly vacant area without much difficulty and laborious planting of flower arrangements. Of course, these plants will equally not be able to replace a flower bed or a flower garden, but they are able to bring a bright palette of colors to a garden or a backyard plot.
Among ground cover crops, a variety of species and varieties reigns, ranging from ordinary low-growing herbaceous plants with the simplest flowers and ending with real ground cover stars with original inflorescences and a scattering of berries of various shades and color combinations. In their large family, there are stunted and tall representatives that can grow not only in the form of a lush and dense carpet, but are also presented as a blooming or blooming border that attracts with lush greenery.
Geranium, catnip, sage, rudbeckia and many others are considered the most popular and effective representatives that easily fit into any ensemble of plants and go well with various garden neighbors. Many ground cover crops will find their rightful place both in an ordinary flower garden and in an empty meadow near fruit trees and shrubs.
The best ground cover plants for the garden
Anafalis
This amazing plant is beautiful not only during the flowering period, but also remains beautiful and eye-catching in the form of a dried flower, as it remains exquisite and charming. The main difference between this ground cover specimen is its color. The leafy part, inflorescences, shoots and seed pods seem to be painted in a noble silver color.
Chinese astilba
The chic astilbe immediately catches the eye with a variety of colors, which are presented in panicle inflorescences. This medium-sized culture covers the area with a tall green carpet, along which, like flowering streams or rivers, bright stripes of colors flow - white, pink, red, blue, lilac, purple.
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Numerous bright, thistle-like flowers during the period of active flowering almost completely hide the leafy part of the plants. Inflorescences of a reddish shade in the form of pubescent balls amaze with their beauty and attract attention with their unusual appearance.Acene has several species and varieties, which differ in the color of the leaves. They can be not only of various green shades, but also attract the eye with purple, silver, gray and variegated tints.
Brunner large-leaved
Brunner is a tall, herbaceous groundcover that blooms in early spring and continues into early fall. This high carpet develops fully both on open land plots and around trees and shrubs. The plant is distinguished by large green heart-shaped leaves covered with various patterns of a silver hue. Sky blue flowers are very similar to forget-me-nots.
Waldsteinium trifoliate
The plant belongs to evergreen medium-sized species and stands out on the site for its splendor and density. Under its dense carpet, the soil is completely hidden. The leaves of the culture are large carved with a bright green hue, sandy-yellow flowers of large size and simple shape. Looks spectacular on a large land area or meadow and attracts attention with a scattering of yellow flowers on a rich green leafy background.
Meadow geranium
Meadow geranium is an unusual ground cover, which differs from others in its rather long flowering period and a varied palette of colors and shades of large flowers. The blooming carpet shimmers with pink, purple, blue, blue, red and purple hues before the fall frost. Geranium grows in a short time and fills all the free areas around it. For example, when planting only four to five plants on one square meter of land, you can very soon see a thick blooming blanket.
Dusheney Indian
This groundcover berry plant is very similar to dense strawberry plantations and is beautiful in its color combination. The main background belongs to lush green leaves, and bright red berries of large size are located on them, like glowing beads.
Pozharsky's bell
Graceful blue, lilac, violet and heavenly shades of small flowers rise above the dense green carpet on thin stalks and delight the eye with their touching beauty throughout the summer season. A flower cloud hovers above the lush mass of leaves.
Newman's cinquefoil
The ground cover plant creates a fabulous natural yellow-green covering of numerous small leaves and small inflorescences (no more than 10 cm in height) of a sunny color. Such a carpet can not only be a unique decor, but it will become a pleasant resting place as a clearing for children to play.
Soft cuff
The beauty's cuff consists of massive bright green leaves and a large number of small yellow inflorescences. It is capable of fully developing in any light, so it can be planted in the open sun and in the penumbra. The culture is beautiful as a single plant, and in combination with incense it looks even more spectacular.
Mylnyanka
The soapwort is a flowering groundcover that forms a dense cover of muted silvery greenery and bright pink flowers. Leaves are oblong in shape, small in size. The plant blooms profusely and for a long time.
Fragrant bedstraw
The little leaves of the bedstraw look like miniature fans, and its flowers look like little stars. This white and green carpet is not only beautiful in appearance, but also smells like a charming aroma in the evening and at night. This is its main advantage that attracts the attention of beneficial insects, and the wind carries the pleasant sweetness over long distances.
Comfrey
Comfrey is not only a ground cover, but also a medicinal plant. In this plant, not only external and useful qualities are combined, it is also attractive for its color composition.Against the background of a green emerald leaf mass, inflorescences of lilac or pink flowers rise, as if collected in bunches.
Tiarella
Tiarella is a plant with large candle-like inflorescences of white, light pink or grayish shades. The culture has rich green pointed leaves that are large in size. Flowering continues throughout the summer season. Flowers can grow in areas with any lighting and soil with any composition.
Ceratostigma lead
This flowering crop densely covers the soil with green foliage and bright blue small flowers throughout the summer months. But the plant has the most beautiful appearance by the beginning of autumn. It is with the arrival of this time of year that the monotonous green foliage suddenly begins to create unexpected color combinations of whites, pinks, greens and purples.
Lamb
Lamb has attracted a lot of attention with its numerous varieties with a varied palette of colors and unusual combinations of colors and shades that are reflected in the inflorescences and leaves. Among them are herbaceous and bushy forms, leaves of various shapes and colors, undersized and tall specimens. Lilac, golden-silver, yellow, pink, snow-white and dark brown can be found in the palette of colors. The most unusual and popular varieties are Checker, White Nancy, Pink Pearl and Shell Pink.
When choosing a planting site for ground cover plants, it is worth considering that open sunny areas are very popular with such plants as acene, anaphalis, cinquefoil, ceratostigma, soapwort. Shade-loving crops are periwinkle, waldsteinia, lamb, bedstraw, comfrey and brunner.
The main care for perennial ground cover crops is annual fertilization and mandatory watering during prolonged hot and dry weather. These unpretentious plants do not need soil maintenance. Due to the dense grassy carpet, it retains moisture for a long time, does not need protection from weeds, loosening and mulching, as it is able to protect itself. With minimal attention to these types of perennials, the green carpet will delight every year with its splendor and attractiveness.
