Creeping Ground Cover With Small Purple Flowers

August 26, 2021

Although this plant is a flowering ground cover, don't grow it unless you also appreciate its stems and foliage. The blue indigo (baptisia australis) is a delightful bushy perennial with small purple flowers and is on the list of early spring bloomers.

Pin by Emily Greene on pollinator garden in 2020

Mini mondo grass ( ophipogon japonicus ‘nana’ ):

Creeping ground cover with small purple flowers. The feathery green leaves pair with small flowers that bear a striking resemblance to daisies, as they have white petals surrounding a yellow center. Chamomile grows well in zones three through nine. The flowers bloom in a star shape that makes your slopes stand out beautifully.

Chamaepericlymenum canadense (also commonly called cornus canadensis) growing conditions: For dramatic amethyst foliage, plant it in shade. If you have slopes that are.

It can withstand some sun but also needs some protection during the day. A ground cover is a low growing plant that creeps along the ground in a spreading pattern. Sedum spurium ‘dragon’s blood stonecrop’, aka ‘red carpet’ is commonly used as ground cover because of its cold hardy nature.

It wouldn’t be a shock if someone stopped dead in their tracks just to stare. The creeper needs moderate maintenance and has a number of cultivars, with the short ‘prostrate’ varieties growing fast to create a lush carpet covering wide areas quickly. As its common name implies, creeping zinnia grows outward and forms a dense mat that will spill over the sides of a container.

Purple new zealand burr purple new zealand burr (acaena inermis ‘purpurea’), zones 5 to 9. Small purple flowers are fragrant. Sometimes called english chamomile, russian chamomile is a creeping style ground cover herb that forms a mat along flower beds.

Society garlic (tulbaghia violacea) is also known as ‘pink agapanthus’. Spikes of tiny blossoms in shades of blue, white, or purple appear in august and september. Ajuga, also called bugleweed, is a beautiful evergreen groundcover that produces spikes of purple flowers in the spring.

You can identify this groundcover weed by its scalloped leaves and clusters of. I prefer evergreen groundcover so that when the flowers die off, there’s a pretty blanket of light and dark green left behind. Its stems, leaves, and flowers can be red, depending on the variety and conditions.

Commonly found in lawns that are cut too short, creeping charlie is probably the hardest weed to get rid of because even a small piece left behind can regrow and make a new plant. Blooming from early to mid summer, the flowers are borne. This petite groundcover plant is the smallest of the small.

It is covered in yellow flowers the entire summer. Although not in the same genus as zinnias, you will certainly notice the resemblance of the creeping zinnia to its namesake. In winter, the foliage takes on tinges of purple.

The real fun comes in autumn, when bright red fruits adorn the petite plants. Dragon's blood stonecrop (sedum spurium 'dragon's blood') hugs the ground. It’s often planted among taller plants and provides cover or a decorative function.

Its small flowers don't last long enough to qualify as an outstanding feature. The stems contain small ovate leaves that provide good ground cover with dense foliage. Can even tolerate light foot traffic.

Growing only about 3 inches tall, this plant spreads over time, crowding out weeds and thus reducing maintenance further. Let the plant spill over retaining walls or form a carpet around taller plants. See more ideas about ground cover, planting flowers, plants.

(1.5 m) tall and spread between 2 ft. Cute little white flowers cover bunchberry plants in spring. Some have green foliage, while others are variegated.

Spanning beautiful flowering plants that carpet the landscape to handsome foliage that brings texture and interesting shapes to the garden, ground covers can vary between just a few inches tall to a foot or more.

Myoporum parvifolium Purpurea Purple flowers, Ground