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Ajuga 'Jungle Beauty' plants with elegant blue flowers and lush green leaves growing as a ground cover.

Ajuga Jungle Beauty

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Ajuga 'Jungle Beauty', commonly known as Carpet Bugle, is a ground-covering plant characterised by dark green leaves with a purple tinge. It produces showy clusters of blue flowers on stems that rise above the foliage in spring as it grows to 20 cm tall and 1 m wide. Ajuga 'Jungle Beauty' is an excellent variety for covering large areas quickly and is often used in borders, allowed to spill out over a path, or maintained in a container.

Suited to regions: All regions
Plant type: Groundcover Plants
Height: 20 cm
Spread: 1.00 m
Flowering time: Spring
Tolerances: Hardy, Shade
Garden uses: Borders, Containers, Living areas, Parks, Paths & Steps, Ponds, Pool areas, Specimen
Garden styles: Backyard, City & Courtyard, Frontyard, Mediterranean, Modern
Silver leaves and pink flowers on a Stachys byzantina plants in a garden.

Stachys byzantina

Stachys byzantina, commonly known as Lambs Ear, is a low-growing, evergreen perennial valued for its soft, silvery foliage that resembles lambs’ ears. It forms dense mats around 30 cm tall, making it ideal as a ground cover or edging plant. In summer, it produces short spikes of pale purple flowers. Lambs Ear thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, and is drought-tolerant once established. Its texture and colour provide year-round interest in New Zealand gardens.

Suited to regions: Subtropical, Temperate
Plant type: Perennials
Height: 50 cm
Spread: 50 cm
Flowering time: Spring, Summer
Tolerances: Coastal
Garden uses: Borders, Containers, Living areas, Paths & Steps, Patios, Pool areas
Garden styles: Backyard, City & Courtyard, Coastal, Frontyard, Japanese, Mediterranean, Modern
Arenaria montana ground cover with white flowers and dark green foliage.

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Juniperus procumbens 'Nana' (prostrate Juniper) growing as a tidy ground cover.

Juniperus procumbens Nana (Japanese Dwarf Juniper)

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Pimelea mimosa

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Carex maorica (NZ Sedge)

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A Gardenia radicans shrub looking amazing with lush foliage and white flowers.

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Westringia Low Horizon with lush grey foliage as a groundcover plant.

Westringia Low Horizon

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Coprosma kirkii green foliage held on yellow stems.

Coprosma kirkii

Coprosma kirkii, also known as Kirk's Coprosma, is a hardy New Zealand native groundcover featuring dense, spreading growth and small, olive-green...

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Coprosma kirkii Variegata

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Trachelospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine) as a ground cover showing lush foliage and white flowers.

Trachelospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine)

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Coprosma acerosa growing on a sand dune.

Coprosma acerosa

Coprosma acerosa, also known as Sand Coprosma or Tātaraheke, is a hardy New Zealand native groundcover well-suited to exposed and coastal...

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Pratia angulata (Panakenake) plants growing as a dense ground cover with lush green leaves and pretty, white flowers.

Pratia angulata

Pratia angulata, commonly known as Panakenake, is a fast-growing, NZ native ground cover plant. It has small, rounded, green leaves that are held...

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Carex solandri grass in a NZ native planting.

Carex solandri

Carex solandri is a NZ native, ornamental grass that features attractive, dark green foliage. The foliage emerges upright and develops a gentle and...

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Arthropodium cirratum (Rengarenga) plants in flower with lush green foliage in a border garden.

Arthropodium cirratum (Rengarenga Lily)

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Coprosma Hawera (Sand Coprosma)

Coprosma Hawera, also known as Sand Coprosma or Tātaraheke, is a hardy New Zealand native groundcover shrub featuring fine, green foliage on orange...

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Ajuga 'Catlins Giant' plants with green foliage and blue flowers growing in a garden bed.

Ajuga Catlins Giant

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Sedum rubrotinctum (Jelly Bean Plant) bright red foliage.

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Disphyma australe (NZ Ice Plant)

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Muehlenbeckia axillaris growing as a ground cover.

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Chlorophytum 'Golden Glow' plant.

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Rose Flower Carpet Red

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Rose Flower Carpet Gold

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Aspidistra lurida (Cast Iron Plant)

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Bletilla striata pink flower.

Bletilla striata (Chinese Ground Orchid)

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A lush Coprosma repens shrub growing in a shaded position.

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This shade cloth for plants, which is also used as plant windbreaks, reduces light levels and windspeeds by 70%. Therefore, 30% of the wind or light...

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