Fragrant carpet: Five of the best perennials, ground cover for flower beds and gardens

  • Dec 24, 2019

You can decorate your site with beautiful plants that are tightly closed ground, to her it was not noticeable. Will help you in this case, ground cover crops - short stature (up to twenty centimeters), of medium height (up to forty centimeters) different kinds of ornamental plants for flower gardens. They will grow in thick fragrant carpet or lush pads. Very pretty flower!

Your attention is a five groundcover perennials. They are all in their own good and valuable in landscape design. Of course, there are many more.

Lilac phlox island (most photos are taken from the Internet)
Lilac phlox island (most photos are taken from the Internet)

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Climbing and evergreen periwinkle

Carpet of green leathery foliage throughout the year, and pale blue flowers in spring, summer. Refers to the creeping bushes, because the culture of stiff shoots. Undemanding, fast growing evergreen. Even in winter from under the snow drifts look through the leaves.

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There are twelve species on the basis of which brought decorative varieties. Painting of the most diverse (white, pink, two-tone). View the "Big" is different in length of shoots (up to forty centimeters) and variegated foliage - green with white border. The most famous sight - small periwinkle, always great-looking, despite its simplicity.

By the way.Culture is called the flower of love (according to belief). According to other signs small flower repels evil spirits. The Europeans plant is a sign of eternal youth, as is able to maintain its decorative effect throughout the year.

bright Heuchera

It has a high, compared to all the enumerated plants growth (up to forty or fifty centimeters). Ornamental foliage allocated different tones, which hides under the soil. With Heuchera can successfully coexist high culture. On the pictures you can see two varieties!

Plant - "child of the mountains." At constant watering and feeding does not need. Heuchera distinctive preferences, by its very nature is not accustomed to any delicacies, it does not. It can be planted as a sunny plot, and the shadow.

Culture has found its application in landscape design (for example, when creating teams of flower beds). Can take pride of place in the national team of a bed at the first position, creating an interesting border. You can also plant a plant along the paths of the garden.

Simple, bright and tasteful: irreplaceable saxifrage

Culture, which forms a carpet or plump vibrant island with white flowers or pink. Its height is not more than twenty centimeters. Successfully can grow on poor soil, it is a lover of sun and partial shade.

Culture can decorate every corner of the garden. Angle is empty? Let them draw a little cute flowers. Suitable for curb and landscaping the town under a tree. Blooms in late spring - early summer.
Saxifrage looks very positive and uplifting
Saxifrage looks very positive and uplifting

Phlox styloid: flourishing field in the garden

If you it is important that the plant bloomed magnificently note on phlox styloid. This is a miniature culture: the height of an adult flower no more than twenty centimeters. Beautiful and lush flowers (see photo).

Hard stems plant entwine soil, respectively, you can conveniently use it for decoration section irregularities. Beautifully will look to him alpine slide. Rapidly able to conquer all the new places in the garden, accordingly requires the control of growth.

Phlox styloid in landscape design
Phlox styloid in landscape design

Stachys, or stahis, sheep ears: who said no flowers anywhere?

Novice growers often consider that flowering of culture - that's all you need for a beautiful garden! Supposedly the more phlox, lilies, peonies, the better. Even add colorful annuals... After a while it becomes clear that no decorative deciduous crops flower beds look boring.

Lush bushes «Sheep ears"
Lush bushes «Sheep ears"
Many people like the woolly Stachys, who has a "silver" leaves from the pile. "Sheep ears" can grow rapidly and tightly, hiding the soil beneath them. Culture can and bloom, but not bright. The leaves of this plant are gorgeous

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