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• Plant and Grow an Exceptional Daylily, ‘Fooled Me’

  The Fooled Me Daylily blooms in midsummer with extended flowering that lasts at least 16 hours each. With a diameter of 5.5 inches, this golden beauty creates a wonderful visual interest. Its award winning blooms boast "pie crust" crimped golden... Posted Oct 27 2009, 09:14 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: container plant, daylily. daylilies, Fooled Me Daylily, groundcover, helpful gardening tips, long bloomer, perennial, salt tolerant, winter hardy

• Use Corydalis Berry Exciting for a bright and colorful groundcover

  Looking for a groundcover with fern-like leaves that are brilliant yellow, streaked with green, and remain colorful all summer? The Corydalis Berry Exciting may be the plant you need. The extremely fragrant purple flowers provide a wonderful contrast... Posted Oct 19 2009, 08:50 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Berry Exciting Corydalis, Corydalsi, fragrant flowers, groundcover, hanging basket plant, late summer bloomer, perennial

• Growing the Bright and Hardy Woadwaxen

  Are you looking for a colorful groundcover that is easy to grow and maintain? Woadwaxen plants fit in both the low-water and low-maintenance categories. A colorful plant, it provides a profusion of bright yellow flowers that drape on this low arching... Posted Sep 21 2009, 11:50 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Bangle Woadwaxen, full sun plant, Golden Template Woadwaxen, groundcover, hardy plant, helpful gardening tips, pruning woadwaxen, shrub, woadwaxen, xeriscape plant

• Growing the Daphne Spirea Shrub

  A prolific bloomer, this Daphne Spirea is covered with clusters of flowers in summer. Its striking foliage forms a dense mounded shape. It is a low, spreading deciduous shrub useful as a groundcover, low hedge or over walls and embankments. It has showy... Posted Sep 19 2009, 01:00 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: daphne spirea, groundcover, hedge, helpful gardening tips, pruning spirea, rebloomer, shrub, summer bloomer

• Growing Cotoneaster

  Cotoneaster shrubs will climb over rocks and walls and are well-loved for their showy berries. Many Cotoneasters have attractive pink or white flowers as well. (No thorns!) In other words, they are grown for their attractive leaves, red or white flowers... Posted Sep 13 2009, 04:11 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: berries, berries for birds, cotoneaster, evergreen shrub, fast growing, groundcover, helpful gardening tips, shrub, suckers

• Attract the Monarch Butterfly with the Cinderella Butterfly Plant

  Cinderella Butterfly Plant is easily grown in medium to wet soils in full sun. It is tolerant of average well-drained soils in cultivation even though the species is native to swamps and wet meadows. Plants have deep taproots and are best left undisturbed... Posted Sep 11 2009, 10:31 AM by bill-nhn with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: bees, butterfly plant, catapillars, Cinderella Butterfly Plant, deadheading, groundcover, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, monarch butterfly plant, perennial

• Growing Liriope

  It is August and my Liriope have just produced these charming, attractive violet-blue flowers! I have two plants in a container under my maple tree ; they do like some shade. They have tolerated my neglect when I would forget to water them, so this plant... Posted Aug 20 2009, 08:52 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: groundcover, helpful gardening tips, liriope, maple tree, perennial, purple flowers

• Lily-of-the-Valley for Groundcover or Erosion Control

  Lily-of-the-Valley is a deciduous plant that has lily-like spathe-shaped leaves, 8" long, 3" wide, arching, and arise from spreading roots. Lily-of-the-Valley will spread slowly to form a thick carpet of green that remains attractive from early... Posted Aug 11 2009, 11:29 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: bulb, fragrant flower, groundcover, helpful gardening tips, lily of the Valley, spreading plant, spring bulb

• Lirope, a fantastic groundcover!

  Liriope is a groundcover that is very tough and successful in preventing erosion on even the steepest hillsides. It survives wet or bone dry conditions, and doing all that in full sun or deep shade! Weeds don't stand a chance in the thick mass of... Posted Jul 21 2009, 09:38 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: accent plant, container plant, groundcover, helpful gardening tips, lirope, ornamental grass, shade plant

• For-Get-Me Nots

  Alaska's state flower is the alpine Forget-me-not . It is a perennial that grows 5 to 12 inches high in alpine meadows. The flowers have five connected salviform petals, colored sky blue, that are a quarter to a third of an inch wide. Forget-me-nots... Posted Jul 19 2009, 05:00 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: border plant, Forget-Me-Nots, groundcover, helpful gardening tips, low growing plant, small perennial

• Use Lamium for a tough groundcover

  Lamium is one of the best choices for a tough yet showy perennial groundcover. It is fairly tolerant of dry shade, once established, and should be trimmed back in late winter. Its stems will root into the ground where they touch, and any new plants that... Posted Jul 18 2009, 05:17 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: groundcover, helpful gardening tips, lamium, shade plant, tough groundcover