Virtues: We love jack-in-the-pulpit for its striking and bizarre flower structure, which gives rise to its common name. This perennial also offers visual interest after its spring flowers fade.
Jack-in-the-Pulpit: a Unique Perennial for Shade
Tag Archives: groundcovers
Try Creeping Mazus As a Low-maintenance Lawn Substitute
Virtues: We love creeping mazus for its stunning mat-like foliage that creeps over the ground in a carpet of deep green. In spring through summer, the groundcover is speckled with tiny clusters of bluish-purple, tubular flowers with white centers spotted … Read Article
Swan River daisy: Brachycome iberidifolia
Virtues: We love Swan River daisy for its abundance of vibrant flowers and drought tolerance.This care-free, fast-growing annual blooms during the summer months and works well as a border or filler for flowerbeds, hanging baskets and window boxes.The mildly-fragrant blooms also … Read Article
Vaccinium Red Pearl: Making it Easy to Fruit Garden
Virtues: Red Pearl lingonberry is a close relative of blueberry bushes (all are in the genus Vaccinium). It works well as a groundcover and produces edible red berries. Even without a distinct fruit or vegetable garden, you can grow fruit … Read Article
Barren Strawberry, a Perennial Flowering Groundcover
Virtues: Barren strawberry (Waldsteinia ternata) is a perennial flowering groundcover. It is an easy-to-grow plant with nice foliage and yellow flowers that appear in spring. As the common name barren strawberry suggests, the plant looks like a strawberry plant, but … Read Article
Rock Cress
Rock cress is a drought-tolerant, early-flowering groundcover that works well in rock gardens, as edging or in combination with early spring bulbs. Read Article
Winter Heath
We love winter heath (Erica carnea) for its early bloom and evergreen presence. Deer resistant. Read Article
Dwarf Sweetbox
We love dwarf sweetbox (Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis) for its very fragrant late winter flowers and its evergreen foliage. Read Article
Russian Cypress
Virtues: A rugged, dense evergreen shrub that makes a nice evergreen mat. Foliage turns bronze or purplish bronze in winter, for something “different.” A good alternative to mat-forming junipers.
Growing a Winter Cover Crop
In this video, Tricia from Peaceful Valley introduces the benefits of growing a winter cover crop and how to get it started.
Cover Crops
What is a cover crop? Read Article