Purple ground cover for Colorado
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoMens Tortuosa(5b Omaha, NE)
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Need help deciding on an Ajuga for a ground cover!
Comments (2)At least for our climate, you're deciding once and for all. Ajuga will spread into your lawn and be virtually impossible to eradicate in a couple years, but that makes it a good ground cover too (lol)....See Moreplease share some purple wandering vine ground cover...
Comments (5)This plant is so easy to root you should be able to find some growing somewhere nearby and ask whoever is in charge for a small snip of it. There's no big secret to it -root it in water or in damp soil. Keep in the shade til new leaves form. They don't always come back each spring. Sometimes the winter is too wet and too cold....See Moreground cover mix under/btween river birches
Comments (3)The purple spike flowers could be Bugleweed- a weed ajuga with green leaves. Arum italicum has leaves during the winter and goes dormant during the summer. It is an interesting companion to hostas. It puts up a bloom in the summer that matures into red berries. For the part sun, look into geraniums- Crane's bill. Some of them are evergreen- except the leaves turn red in autumn. Carex morrowii- Japanese sedge is an evergreen, grass-like plant for shade. There are other Carex as well, but not all are evergreen. I'm not very surprised by your purpleheart- mine has been around for 3 years. I am impressed by the z6!...See MoreGround cover for clay soil
Comments (1)My garden is in clay soil and is sun to shade. All I have for the Fondation plan things are groundcovers. The lightest in this photo is Snow on the Mountain and is hardy back to the Midwest as an inn I stay at has it. Its deciduous and disappears in winter but comes back. The darker green and silver leaved plant is Archangel lamium. It can grow in dark shade to sun but likes water to get started. It will choke out weeds completely as it has matting surface roots. I forget what the dark leaved plants are but those get yellow flowers. I have fragaria in the back garden mixed with stachys and cerastium. Those all like sun. I'm trying dymondia up on the dogs level to see if that takes, I'm not big on amending soil and clay is what I have to work with....See MoreUser
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