orange ground cover plants
Looking to add a splash of vibrant colour to your garden? Orange ground cover plants are a striking choice, offering a unique warmth and energy that sets your landscape apart. Whether you’re aiming for a rich tapestry across your borders or an eye-catching feature in a rock garden, ground covers with orange hues provide both beauty and practical benefits like weed suppression and soil retention. In New Zealand gardens, these plants thrive in sunny spots, enlivening pathways, sloping banks, and containers with their distinctive blooms and foliage.
Hemerocallis 'Orange Star'
Hemerocallis 'Orange Star' is a variety of the commonly known, Day Lily, and features very showy flowers. The impressive, burnt orange blooms are only at peak condition for a day or so, but are continually produced through summer. They are held above the strap-like, green leaves as it grows to 50 cm tall and the same wide. Hemerocallis Orange Star is commonly mass planted as a groundcover, planted around the base of larger trees, included in borders and cottage gardens, or added to a mixed planting.
From $22.88
Kniphofia Dwarf Orange (Torchlily)
Kniphofia Dwarf Orange is a variety of the commonly known, Red Hot Poker, and is grown for its colourful flowers. Stems rise above the foliage through summer and autumn to bare showy clusters of orange flowers. This herbaceous perennial grows as a clump, producing thin, strap like, mid-green leaves, and typically grows to 45 cm tall and the same wide. Kniphofia Dwarf Orange is a versatile plant that is commonly planted to attract birds, included in borders and mixed plantings, planted around the base of trees, included in riparian plantings, or mass planted either on a bank or as a groundcover.
From $20.18
