silver ground cover plant
If you’re searching for a drought-tolerant, low-maintenance way to carpet your garden with colour and texture, a silver ground cover plant offers the perfect solution. These versatile plants bring a subtle shimmer to garden beds, borders, pathways, and rockeries. Renowned for their silvery-grey foliage, silver ground covers reflect the natural light and pair beautifully with green-leaved companions, making them a favourite for modern landscaping and classic cottage gardens alike in New Zealand.
Dymondia margaretae
Dymondia margaretae (Silver Carpet) is a hardy low growing groundcover valued for its attractive silver green foliage and dense spreading habit. This drought tolerant plant forms a soft carpet like mat that works exceptionally well in sunny New Zealand gardens. Small yellow daisy flowers appear through the warmer months, adding extra interest to the foliage display. Dymondia margaretae is ideal for pathways, rock gardens, between paving stones, and dry landscape areas where a tough and attractive alternative to traditional lawn or groundcover plants is desired.
From $19.58
Helichrysum petiolare (Licorice Plant)
Helichrysum petiolare, commonly known as the Licorice plant, is a popular, evergreen shrub that is often used as a groundcover. It produces long stems that host small and rounded, grey-silver leaves. The leaves are complemented with cream-coloured flowers in summer as it grows to 50 cm tall and 1.5 m wide. Helichrysum petiolare is commonly included in rock and cottage gardens, used in border plantings, maintained in a container, planted around outdoor living areas such as pools and the like, or mass planted as a groundcover on a bank.
From $24.23
