Perennial Groundcover By Roger Chamberlin, 56th Garden Center Perennial Groundcover Perennial groundcovers provide a valuable and beautiful purpose in both your sunny and shady landscapes. They creep, vine, and mat almost any area where grass has failed to grow or the area is too steep to maintain without difficulty. Normally, groundcovers will take about two years, if properly planted and cared for, to develop a beautiful, thick, foliage cover that will conceal, protect, and add color to most any bare spot in your yard.
Groundcovers are one of the most underrated perennials in the landscape.
They can add color and texture as green foliage mulch while helping to retain moisture and prevent erosion on steep slopes. Groundcovers will soften the edges of brick walls, stepping stone walkways, and hide obstacles in the garden such as pipes, pumps, stumps, and fading bulbs, while clumping together to block out troublesome weeds at the same time. Plumbago Acre Sedum Creeping Phlox Creeping Red Thyme Barren Strawberry Around the Lincoln area some of the most popular groundcovers that thrive and have proven to withstand the rigors of our summer heat and frigid winters are such favorites as Plumbago, Acre Sedum, Creeping Phlox, Creeping Red Thyme, and Barren Strawberry, all performing well in sunny to partially-sunny locations in your landscape. Most of these plants will not only give your landscape a wonderful carpet of green foliage, but also reward you with mounds of color ranging from blues, pinks, reds, yellows, and hues in between. The perennial groundcovers can be combined with such long-standing attractive plants as hostas, daylilies, and ornamental grasses to name only a few.