low ground cover evergreen plants
Looking for low ground cover evergreen plants to bring year-round colour, texture, and easy care to your New Zealand garden? Low-growing evergreens are a wonderful way to cover bare soil, suppress weeds, and create a lush landscape that stays green all year. Whether you want a tidy border, a living mulch around trees, or a beautiful carpet under shrubs, these versatile plants provide lasting beauty and minimal maintenance.
Leptinella dioica
Leptinella dioica (Bachelor Button Plant) is a low growing evergreen groundcover valued for its fine fern like foliage and ability to create a dense carpet of greenery. The attractive foliage provides year round texture and softens pathways, rock gardens, and garden edges.
From $13.95
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.
From $16.95
