Perennial ground cover

These beautiful compact perennials can be used as ground covers for shade to add interest to your garden while helping to keep the weeds down.

All 10 flowering ground covers that are recommend earn top marks for their long bloom season, resistance to pests and diseases, and ability to fill quickly an area of any size.

These beautiful compact perennials can be used as ground covers for shade to add interest to your garden while helping to keep the weeds down.

Meet 20 evergreen groundcover plants that are beautiful all year long. Some are suited to full sun, others are best for shade. Many also produce flowers.

When designing your landscape, don’t forget to include perennial ground cover plants for your garden. Many of these are low maintenance plants, such as Creeping Phlox and Thymius, which provide your beds with green foliage year round. #perennialgroundcovers #bestgroundcover #colorfulgroundcover

Whatever the ground cover is used for, here are a few I have effectively tried over the years that required little to no maintenance and did quite well in the extreme heat and full sun of my Garden in Southern Alabama.

Ground cover plants offer a low-maintenance alternative to carpets of lawn. Learn about 15 of the best flowering ground covers now on Gardener’s Path.

These quick-spreading ground covers are perfect for reducing understory maintenance.

Plant these shade-loving #perennial ground cover plants under bushes and trees to help prevent weeds from growing and add some beautiful flowers to your garden.

Enkianthus campanulatus This lovely flowering shrub, commonly called redvein enkianthus, deserves more attention. It has charming white, creamy-yellow, whitish-pink, or pink nodding flowers in spring. A slow-growing shrub, Enkianthus can range in height from 6’ to 15’, depending on the variety. All are acid loving shrubs, similar to Rhododendrons and Azaleas. I planted a pure…