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	Blooming Ground Cover for Deep, Dry Shade? Lamiastrum!

Blooming Ground Cover for Deep, Dry Shade? Lamiastrum!

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Mar 28th 2025

Lamiastrum g. ‘Herman’s Pride’ is a lovely ground cover that excels even in one of the toughest landscape niches: The dreaded, deep, dry shade. The bright blooms and strong silver highlights proudly brighten shadowy borders. Colorful and sturdy, it spreads slowly, clump by clump, to colonize tricky slopes and other barren places. Hardy in Zones 4 – 8, it stands about a foot tall when in bloom. This interesting, useful plant has two common names., but only
Groundcover Gains for 2024

Groundcover Gains for 2024

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Jul 24th 2023

Known variously as creeping phlox or moss phlox, early flowering Phlox subulata is a familiar friend, often among the first blooms of spring. Its cheerful, five-petaled blooms crawl over slopes and spill over walls, providing a welcome blanket of color to winter-weary gardens and gardeners.We hear you: It’s hard to even imagine spring, let alone plan for it, while the dog days are raging, hot, and humid. But this really is the time to do just that.A crop of Phlox subulata planted in late summer/
Let’s Cover Some Ground!

Let’s Cover Some Ground!

Posted by John Friel on Jul 26th 2022

What comes to mind when someone says “groundcover?”First, you picture the two or three species you see everywhere. Next, you yawn. Right? Wake up and smell the coffee! Groundcovers don’t have to be the same old ho-hum stuff. There are fantastic choices in our perennial lineup. Let’s look at a couple. Iberis sempervirens ‘Purity’ Most of the year, this is a low-profile, semi-woody groundcover with small, leathery, dark green leaves. In early spring, when it smothers itself in clusters
LOW PROFILE. HIGH PERFORMANCE! Ground-Hugging Veronica

LOW PROFILE. HIGH PERFORMANCE! Ground-Hugging Veronica

Posted by John Friel on May 11th 2022

Say Veronica, and many of us picture flower spikes rising a foot or two in mid-border. But another category of “speedwell” keeps a lower profile. These varieties charm as groundcovers and edging, or planted as a “spiller” in containers or beside stone walls. Here’s the lowdown.Veronica peduncularis ‘Georgia Blue’Mats of small round leaves disappear under a slathering of tiny blue flowers with white eye zones. The foliage turns dark green in summer, then bronze in fall. The name is from Eura

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