Rock Garden Ground Cover Plants

Aug 16 2017 ideas for rock gardens and alpine gardens including plants and ground covers that are perfect for these type of gardens.

Rock garden ground cover plants.

A rock garden sometimes known as a rockery or alpine garden is a planting area designed with a hardscape featuring a selection of gravels rocks and or boulders it typically includes softscape plants suitable to those conditions. If you are looking for a plant that will cover the rocks in your garden the rock cress is a great option that will give your garden a softer look. If you enjoy gardening landscaping be sure to check out my other gardening boards for specific gardening topics. Lawn and garden garden paths rock garden plants ground cover plants full sun ground cover ground cover flowers low growing ground cover flagstone patio low maintenance plants.

Lamb s ear likes nearly all types of soil. This ground cover plant is perfect for rock gardens or areas with rocky soil. Creeping phlox produces carpets of blue purple rose pink or bicolor blooms. The beauty of a well planned rock garden is the rocks and plants work together to elevate each other s impact.

The one type of soil it doesn t do well in is waterlogged areas. Veronica liwanensis dartmouth house may 2008 some small johnny jump ups in the middle. An ideal rock garden plant creeping phlox thrives in poor dry soil that drains quickly after rain. Turkish veronica blooming in flagstone patio.

The creeping phlox phlox stolonifera is a flowering perennial ground cover for sun which provides a carpet of green cover throughout the year this low growing type of evergreen plant has trailing stems that help to cover areas of your garden or look good in rock gardens. If you have a spot in your yard where nothing seems to grow well consider lamb s ear. In fact it tends to grow like moss which means that moist ground will be beneficial for its growth.