garden ground cover plants
If you’re looking to transform bare soil into a living carpet, garden ground cover plants offer an easy and attractive solution for every New Zealand landscape. These low-growing plants spread to form dense mats, suppress weeds, conserve moisture, and create a unified, lush look beneath shrubs, trees, or along pathways. With a wide variety of textures, colours, and flowering options available, it’s simple to find garden ground cover plants that thrive in both sun and shade, coastal sites, and challenging soils. Discover how the right ground cover can add beauty, curb appeal, and low-maintenance benefits to your garden.
Grevillea Gaudichaudii (Grevillea x gaudichaudii)
Grevillea Gaudichaudii, commonly known as Spider Flower, is a hardy and attractive groundcover plant. Attractive, dark green and purple tinted foliage has a lush and fresh appearance and is held on prostrate branches. Showy, spider-like, burgundy-coloured flowers are produced from spring through autumn as it grows to 30 cm tall and 2 m wide. Grevillea Gaudichaudii is commonly used as a groundcover, included in a mixed planting, added to a tropical garden, maintained in a container, or mass planted around larger trees or on a bank. It looks amazing when allowed to cascade over walls and rocks.
Ajuga reptans variegata
Ajuga reptans 'Variegata' is a quick-growing, ground-covering plant that features colourful leaves that are variegated green and cream. In spring, it produces showy clusters of blue flowers as it grows to 20 cm in height and 50 cm in width. Ajuga reptans' Variegata' is an excellent variety for quickly covering large areas and is often used in borders, allowed to spill out over a path, planted around outdoor living areas, or maintained in a container.
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