Ground Cover options over flower bed

Use sedum. It will take any heat abuse and require no work. Pachysandra is a shade plant, btw.

Some get around 4” high and make great ground cover.

More pics and types at;
http://www.sedumphotos.net/

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Creeping Phlox…..I believe you can walk on it too.

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Creeping Thyme.. You can walk on it, too.. It’s loooooooow however.. 1/4” high or so.

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Curly thyme creeps ….. and great between stone walkways etc so I’ve been told.

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I have “ground covering thyme” and we walk on it: the floor in the pergola and around the pathway! It is very sturdy, smell nice and blooms profusely! I grows to be about the same height as the sedum and does re-seed itself!

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This is just one ground cover I have and too much of it but it is pretty

Creeping veronica. It has 3 different colors on the same plant, mauve, pale blue and dark blue. The nursery who gave it to me told me it came over from Scotland with her family in the 1700s on the Ship Hectors. A historic town where I live handy to it

I have far too many types of ground covers. This is just one of them

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You got it from a nursery, we pull it out as a weed…Lol !

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Wooly thyme creeps

I must take a pic of mine

it grows in a mat and very close to the ground. Great for growing over concreat walks and rocks

it is only about 2 inches high and loves to be walked on. The aroma is wonderful. it has a tiny pink flower bloom in June

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dini

are you sure it was the same plant as there is not much of the original around except what I have been giving away

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Hi Bunting:
I noticed you are having trouble with your pictures showing up on the forum.
If you put an exclamation mark before and right after the Http:blah bla blah that you cut and paste from photobucket they will show up on the page like this example:

””!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/Butterfly0/PICT0030-3.jpg ! ””

cheers Bob

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Or once you hit paste (on GT) with your pic from photobucket … just hit “return” 3 times and it will do it for you. Then hit “preview” to see your photo as everyone else will see it.

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Thanks for all the suggestions, I Love the creeping veronica, that is exactly what I was thinking. The old owner of our house I think put in the creeping thyme….......well that stuff creeped everywhere, in our grass in our crawl space, I kind of am over that, unfortunately. I agree though it does smell wonderful when I pull it out :)
I am going to google that veronica and see if I can find any, I will forever be jealous if your nursery lady is the only one with it! thanks Bob!

BOB This nursery friend has sold it to a lot of places and gave a lot away

It is on the web recently

They also have mail ordering. They are just down the road from me

my plants are about 15 years old

it is not like her to give plants awayas they make their living that way but now I know why with this one. Spreads very fast

wooly thyme didn’t spread fast for me or my cuz. Took a few years to grow to any amount

Thanks Bob and GT for the posting pic tips . Very very different than other forums

I will do that next time/ Thanks

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I planted morning glory seeds and got this. The MG never germinated

it is very yellow in color. I was asked if this was magic, lol,lol I don’t know how this formed in the soil. I don’t have mushrooms and this container was not outside.

I thought mushrooms grew in dark moist places. This is on my window sill

Now I will see if this posts right. I did it right!! thanks so much. I was wondering why my pic were not opening

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

I need an ID please

I forget what this flower is

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Here is a link to the creeping veronica

I know she told me a the time I was the only person who had it besides her. so don’t know other than that

She didn’t sell it for a lot of years cause she thought people wouldn’t want it because of its fast spreading habits

Then people were getting it from me so she decided to sell it.
I am sure nurseries sell to one another when they get an unusual plant

I am garbaging a lot of it this years as I have a lot more than what is in that pic. it spread everywhere and I don’t want that much of it

Makes a nice border tho

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-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

I love your sedum Scott

It took over my lawn too but I don’t mind. I love the yellow and it mows down ok. Too late to remove it now and I am not the type the lawns and grass needs to be perfect

why in the world I bought so many ground covers I don’t know.

I was new at gardening at the time so I didn’t have a clue what I was buying at the time

Now I have learned to ask questions but so many in the nurseries are summer help and they know very little

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