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MINIATURE GOLDEN JAPANESE SWEET FLAG
Acorus gramineus Minimus Aureus
Buy Miniature Golden Japanese Sweet Flag online. 'Minimus Aureus', better known as Miniature Golden Japanese Sweet Flag is an excellent dwarf groundcover that gives any full sun area a splash of color. This low maintenance ornamental grass is sweetly fragrant, and is extremely tolerant of wet soils like other cultivars of Acorus.
Starting at $35.00
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OBOROZUKI VARIEGATED JAPANESE SWEET FLAG
Acorus gramineus Oborozuki
Buy Oborozuki Variegated Japanese Sweet Flag online. Striking upright clumps of yellow-striped, grass-like foliage provide wonderful color and texture for lightly shaded gardens. An excellent groundcover or hardy bog plant for open woods, at water's edge, and in ponds or water gardens in up to four inches of water. Semi-evergreen.
Starting at $35.00
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GOLDEN VARIEGATED JAPANESE SWEET FLAG
Acorus gramineus Ogon
Buy Golden Variegated Sweet Flag online. Golden Variegated Sweet Flag is an excellent low growing, green and golden variegated marsh grass. Foliage is upright and fan shaped. Perfect for accent, mass plantings and water edge plantings. Use it to brighten up dark, moist areas of your garden!
Starting at $35.00
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VARIEGATED SWEET FLAG
Acorus gramineus Variegated Sweet Flag
Buy Variegated Sweet Flag online. An excellent low-growing, white and green variegated marsh grass. Foliage is upright and fan shaped. Perfect for accent, mass plantings and water edge plantings. Use it to brighten up dark, moist areas of your garden.
Starting at $35.00
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MIDNIGHT MYSTERY™ AJUGA
Ajuga reptans ABFG0413A
Buy Midnight Mystery™ Ajuga online. Midnight Mystery™ Ajuga is a great perennial that has purplish-bronze leaves that emerge in spring. These glossy leaves are topped with spikes of rosy-pink flowers. As the spring season passes and summer begins, the heat begins to darken the leaves, and in warmer climates, this color can persist through winter! It makes an excellent groundcover, and will look great mixed in your favorite shady landscape.
Starting at $25.00
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WALBERTON'S® BLACK SCALLOP AJUGA
Ajuga reptans Black Scallop
Buy Walberton's® Black Scallop Ajuga online. Very dark almost black ground cover with very dark, uniform, glossy scalloped foiliage. Heat resistant with deep blue flowers
Starting at $15.00
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BLUEBERRY MUFFIN AJUGA
Ajuga reptans Blueberry Muffin
Buy Blueberry Muffin Ajuga online. 'Blueberry Muffin' is an extremely vigorous small leaved ground cover with dark new leaves and blueberry-blue flowers on eight inch spikes. A much faster and stronger grower than Chocolate Chip Ajuga. Leaves are thicker and more weather resistant to boot!
Starting at $25.00
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BRONZE BEAUTY AJUGA
Ajuga reptans Bronze Beauty
Buy Bronze Beauty Ajuga online. Shiny bronze foliage and blue flowers adorn this fast spreading ground cover. Use in mass plantings, rock gardens and along walkways.
Starting at $15.00
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BURGUNDY GLOW AJUGA
Ajuga reptans Burgundy Glow
Buy Burgundy Glow Ajuga online. 'Burgundy Glow' sports burgundy red foliage with cream and green varigation, along with powder blue spike flowers, gives this plant a look like no other. Perfect for mass plantings and rock gardens.
Starting at $15.00
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CATLIN'S GIANT AJUGA
Ajuga reptans Catlins Giant
Buy Catlin's Giant Ajuga online. Catlin's Giant Ajuga is a large-leafed perennial with purplish-green foliage. Quickly grows to form a spinach-like mound. Bears up to 10" tall blue flower spikes in late spring. Excels as a groundcover!
Starting at $25.00
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CHOCOLATE CHIP AJUGA
Ajuga reptans Chocolate Chip
Buy Chocolate Chip Ajuga online. This ajuga looks much different than it's cousins 'Bronze' and 'Burgundy Glow', as the leaves are much narrower and shorter. Light blue flower spikes contrast well with the chocolate-colored foliage. Possibly the easiest ajuga to grow in the south, where other varieties tend to stress in the heat. Use in mass plantings, in rock gardens, and along walkways.
Starting at $15.00
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PINK LIGHTNING VARIEGATED AJUGA
Ajuga reptans Pink Lightning
Buy Pink Lightning Variegated Ajuga online. This variety forms a low, spreading mat of soft mint green, crinkly textured leaves with a distinct creamy white edge. Short, bubblegum pink flower spikes are produced in mid to late spring.
Starting at $25.00
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PRINCESS NADIA AJUGA
Ajuga tenorii Piotrek01
Buy Princess Nadia Ajuga online. Princess Nadia Ajuga is a great reblooming ajuga that will give you color in early spring, and then a repeat show in summer! The blooms are purple-blue and will adorn the top of the variegated foliage. This is a great perennial groundcover for shady areas.
Starting at $15.00
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PACIFIC MIST MANZANITA
Arctostaphylos x Pacific Mist
Buy Pacific Mist Manzanita online. Pacific Mist Manzanita is a vigorous, fast-spreading groundcover prized for its ability to quickly transform open spaces into a lush, weed-suppressing carpet. Its arching stems are covered in long, pointed blue-green leaves, creating a soft, natural texture that blends beautifully into both wild and designed landscapes.
Perfectly suited for challenging locations, this hardy selection thrives in full sun and requires little to no supplemental water once established. Its dense growth habit not only reduces maintenance but also makes it an excellent solution for erosion control on slopes, rocky embankments, or other difficult sites where few plants succeed.
Whether cascading gracefully along a driveway edge or filling in wide, sunny expanses, Pacific Mist Manzanita delivers both function and beauty. Its adaptability, resilience, and low-maintenance nature make it a reliable choice for gardeners looking to stabilize the landscape while adding year-round evergreen appeal.
Starting at $55.00
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SNOW IN SUMMER
Cerastium tomentosum Snow in Summer
Buy Snow in Summer online. Just as the name says, Snow in Summer provides masses of small white flowers on top of silvery-gray foliage. Blooms late spring into summer. A fantastic rock garden plant that thrives in heat and drought. Also perfect for ledges, borders, and mass plantings.
Starting at $25.00
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YO YO SNOW IN SUMMER
Cerastium tomentosum Yo Yo
Buy Yo Yo Snow in Summeronline. This low maintenance plant is covered with a multitude of white blooms in summer and is known for it's silvery gray foliage. It is more compact and slower spreading others in the species.
Starting at $25.00
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GROUND COTONEASTER
Cotoneaster horizontalis Ground
Buy Ground Cotoneaster online. Small, dark, green, shiny leaves cover the extremely low spreading branches. Dark pink blossoms line the graceful branches in the spring. Bright red berries add to the fall appearance
Starting at $85.00
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SCARLET LEADER COTONEASTER
Cotoneaster salicifolius Scarlet Leader
Buy Scarlet Leader Cotoneaster online. This cultivar of Willowleaf Cotoneaster is an excellent ground cover with glossy dark green leaves. Develops a red-purple winter leaf color.
Starting at $45.00
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WHITE ALBUM® EUONYMUS
Euonymus fortunei Alban
Buy White Album® Euonymus online. White Album® Euonymus is an improved form of 'Emerald Gaiety' with its superior leaf spot resistance and consistent growing habit. Landscapers and gardeners will appreciate the bright leaves that set it apart from older varieties. The stable variegation has a large, cream-colored border around the perimeter of the large evergreen leaves.
Starting at $45.00
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PURPLE LEAF WINTERCREEPER EUONYMUS
Euonymus fortunei Coloratus
Buy Purple Leaf Wintercreeper Euonymus online. Semi-prostrate with deep green summer foliage turning plum color in winter. Excellent ground cover. Perfect for large area coverage, hillsides and areas not easily accessed for care.
Starting at $25.00
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EMERALD GAIETY EUONYMUS
Euonymus fortunei Emerald Gaiety
Buy Emerald Gaiety Euonymus online. Compact, spreading evergreen shrub. Leaves are deep green in the center, with white margins, and hold their color all year. Excellent as ground cover or accent plant. Will climb if placed next to a structure.
THIS PLANT CANNOT BE SHIPPED INTO THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Starting at $45.00
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HARLEQUIN WINTERCREEPER EUONYMUS
Euonymus fortunei Harlequin
Buy Harlequin Wintercreeper Euonymus online. The beautiful groundcover euonymus has variegation unlike any other euonymus we've seen. Instead of distinct separations between the margins and center of the leaves, this cultivar will be splashed and streaked with white, creating an amazing standout in the sunny landscape. Like other E. fortunei cultivars, this variety is evergreen. It's great planting in masses!
Starting at $65.00
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MOONSHADOW EUONYMUS
Euonymus fortunei Moonshadow
Buy Moonshadow Euonymus online. A sport of Sunspot Euonymus that displays wavy and lighter yellow leaves with thin green margins. This dense, compact, and evergreen shrub is an excellent plant for border or low hedge.
THIS PLANT CANNOT BE SHIPPED INTO THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Starting at $45.00
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GOLD SPLASH® EUONYMUS
Euonymus fortunei Roemertwo
Buy Gold Splash® Euonymus online. Gold Splash® Euonymus is not just another variegated euonymus! A sport of 'Emerald n' Gold' with big round leaves displaying a thick deep golden-yellow edge. Very showy. Excellent impulse appeal. Yellow fruit and orange seed are very showy and persistent. Excellent hardiness, too.
THIS PLANT CANNOT BE SHIPPED INTO THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Starting at $45.00
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WOLONG GHOST EUONYMUS
Euonymus fortunei Wolong Ghost
Buy Wolong Ghost Euonymus online. A wonderful selection, this euonymus has dark green foliage with silvery white veins. 'Wolong Ghost' is a mat forming groundcover, but will not become invasive. Perfect for large area coverage, hillsides and areas not easily accessed for care.
THIS PLANT CANNOT BE SHIPPED INTO THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Starting at $45.00
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ANGYO STAR™ FATSHEDERA
Fatshedera lizei Angyo Star
Buy Angyo Star™ Fatshedera online. This hybrid plant is a unique combination of Fatsia japonica and Hedera helix, which creates an amazing climbing specimen that has amazing traits from both parents. This evergreen climber features variegated dark green and creamy yellow leaves, and is perfect for partial to full shade locations. It is a climbing plant, but will not adhere itself to walls, as it needs support to grow where wanted. It can also be used as a groundcover.
Starting at $45.00
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GREEN CARPET JUNIPER
Juniperus communis Green Carpet
Buy Green Carpet Juniper online. Green Carpet Juniper is a hardy and low-maintenance ground cover that thrives in various conditions! This juniper features bright green spring growth that matures into a rich, darker green, creating a densely textured carpet-like appearance.
Ideal for covering dry banks or rough ground, this versatile plant adapts well to poor soil and even helps choke out weeds. Once established, Green Carpet Juniper becomes drought-tolerant, making it an excellent choice for low-maintenance gardens.
This tidy, compact juniper is extremely hardy and adaptable, ensuring it remains lush and vibrant throughout the seasons. Its ground-hugging form and resilient nature make it a popular choice for garden enthusiasts looking for an attractive and easy-care solution.
Enhance your garden with Green Carpet Juniper, and enjoy its vibrant foliage and durable groundcover properties all year long!
Starting at $45.00
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ALL GOLD JUNIPER
Juniperus conferta All Gold
Buy All Gold Juniper online. All Gold Juniper is a radiant groundcover that brings bold color and lasting texture to the landscape. Its vivid, golden-yellow foliage creates a brilliant contrast against surrounding plants, making it an eye-catching choice for slopes, borders, and open spaces. With its low, spreading habit, it quickly forms a dense, carpet-like cover that is both beautiful and practical.
The foliage is composed of tightly packed, prickly, awl-shaped needles that maintain their bright golden hue through the growing season, shifting to a soft bronze tone in winter for year-round interest. This seasonal transformation adds depth and character, ensuring the plant remains attractive even in colder months.
Originating from the coastal regions of Japan, All Gold Juniper is naturally resilient and thrives in challenging environments, including seacoast conditions. It performs best in full sun, where its golden color is most intense, and requires little maintenance once established - making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking durability, color, and effortless ground coverage.
Starting at $45.00
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BLUE PACIFIC JUNIPER
Juniperus conferta Blue Pacific
Buy Blue Pacific Juniper online. A fast growing trailing groundcover. Foliage is an icy blue-green color with a slight purple winter color.
Starting at $45.00
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SILVER MIST JUNIPER
Juniperus conferta Silver Mist
Buy Silver Mist Juniper online. Silver Mist Juniper is a hardy, low-spreading evergreen known for its stunning blue-green needles and silvery sheen. This coniferous plant is an excellent choice for gardeners seeking a maintenance-free groundcover and erosion controller for slopes and embankments.
Silver Mist Juniper boasts thick, densely set, stiff branches. Its sharp needles feature broad white bands, giving the plant a unique, silvery appearance that looks as though it has been lightly sprayed with silver paint. The new growth adds a touch of reddish brown, further enhancing its visual appeal.
This plant is admired for its exceptional durability. It can tolerate extreme drought and poor soil, making it an ideal choice for tough growing conditions. The spruce-like foliage of Silver Mist Juniper adds a unique texture to the landscape, contrasting beautifully with other plants, especially those with dark green, purple, red, burgundy, or golden foliage.
Versatile and resilient, Silver Mist Juniper thrives in many conditions, particularly poor and sandy soils, although it is not suitable for soggy soils. Its ground-hugging habit makes it a super-tough addition to any garden, providing year-round beauty and practicality.
Enhance your landscape with Silver Mist Juniper - a reliable and aesthetically pleasing groundcover that offers a unique texture and stunning foliage. Perfect for adding a touch of elegance and resilience to your garden, this plant is a must-have for those looking to create a beautiful and maintenance-free outdoor space.
Starting at $85.00
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GOLDEN PACIFIC™ JUNIPER
Juniperus conferta sPg-3-016
Golden Pacific™ Juniper is a standout evergreen groundcover prized for its glowing golden foliage and graceful, spreading habit. Its fine, needle-like leaves form a dense, low mat that hugs the ground while adding rich color and texture to landscapes year-round. Whether cascading over slopes or filling wide open spaces, this juniper creates a polished, intentional look with very little effort. It's especially eye-catching when paired with darker evergreens or stone features. Once established, it becomes a reliable foundation plant that quietly does its job beautifully.
This juniper remains compact in height while steadily spreading outward, making it an excellent choice for erosion control, borders, and mass plantings. The golden tones intensify in full sun, creating a warm contrast that holds through every season. Its evergreen nature ensures dependable color even in winter, when many landscapes feel bare. Gardeners love its moderate growth rate, which fills in nicely without becoming aggressive or unruly. It's a plant that rewards patience with long-term performance.
Golden Pacific™ Juniper thrives in sunny, well-drained locations and is remarkably low maintenance once established. It tolerates heat, drought, and poor soils better than many groundcovers, making it ideal for tough spots where other plants struggle. Deer typically pass it by, adding another layer of reliability for rural or suburban landscapes. With minimal pruning needs and excellent adaptability, this juniper is an easy win for gardeners who want beauty without constant upkeep.
Starting at $45.00
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BAR HARBOR JUNIPER
Juniperus horizontalis Bar Harbor
Buy Bar Harbor Juniper online. Low growing prostrate groundcover. Foliage is very blue with blue-gray summer color and blue to light blue-purple winter color. Good tough evergreen groundcover.
Starting at $85.00
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BLUE RUG JUNIPER
Juniperus horizontalis Blue Rug
Buy Blue Rug Juniper online. A spectacular very low-growing, trailing juniper, with definite silver-blue color. Good growth habit with a full center. Excellent for groundcover or bank planting.
Starting at $45.00
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GLOMERATA JUNIPER
Juniperus horizontalis Glomerata
Buy Glomerata Juniper online. Glomerata Juniper is a versatile evergreen groundcover prized for its dense, spreading habit and year-round beauty. During the growing season, its soft blue-green foliage creates a cool, calming presence in the landscape, bringing texture and color to borders, slopes, and open spaces.
As temperatures drop, this hardy juniper undergoes a striking transformation, shifting to rich purple tones that provide vibrant winter interest. Its seasonal color change adds depth and contrast, ensuring the plant remains a focal point even when much of the garden is dormant.
Highly adaptable and easy to grow, Glomerata Juniper is an ideal solution for low-maintenance landscapes. Naturally drought tolerant and resilient, it thrives in sunny, well-drained locations, making it a smart choice for gardeners who want reliable coverage with minimal upkeep.
Starting at $45.00
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MOTHER LODE JUNIPER
Juniperus horizontalis Mother Lode
Buy Mother Lode Juniper online. Juniperus horizontalis 'Mother Lode' has bright, golden yellow foliage in spring and summer which transitions to rich, burgundy plum undertones during the winter giving this extremely flat, ground-hugging juniper long-term garden interest. Discovered at Iseli Nursery in 1982 as a sport on J. horizontalis 'Wiltoni', it performs admirably in full or partial sun. Let it cascade over a bank, define a mound, or cover ground planted in masses.
Starting at $45.00
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LIMEGLOW™ JUNIPER
Juniperus horizontalis NOSIg
Buy Limeglow™ Juniper online. Not your typical juniper! Limeglow™ Juniper displays feathery foliage in electric chartreuse, a color that makes a striking contrast to other greens in the garden. Its spreading, vase form and juvenile foliage lend a cheery presence in almost any garden, including one with hot, dry conditions. The yellow sport from 'Youngstown' is reported to hold its bright color and to resist sunburn. Selected by Larry Hatch with North Carolina State University.
Starting at $45.00
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GREENMOUND PROCUMBENS JUNIPER
Juniperus procumbens Greenmound
Buy Greenmound Procumbens Juniper online. A mounding/trailing ground cover. Stiff branches and tight green foliage. 'Greenmound' is used extensively as an evergreen bonsai. Is known to be an improved variety of J. procumbens 'Nana'.
Starting at $45.00
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CREEPING MAHONIA
Mahonia repens
Buy Creeping Mahonia online. Creeping Mahonia is a low, spreading evergreen that displays bright yellow flowers followed by bluish-black fruit clusters. It is suitable for use as a large scale groundcover, or small shrub grouping. It will control erosion, and it is greatly suited for rain gardens.
Starting at $45.00
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PEARLY WIRE VINE
Muehlenbeckia axillaris
Buy Pearly Wire Vine online. Tiny dark green, glossy leaves on wiry stems give this plant an unusual texture. A semi-rapid grower that is almost evergreen, makes it a good choice as a ground cover for large areas. Prefers shade in the south and semi shade in northern states. produces small clear to white fruit and black seeds.
Starting at $15.00
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GREEN SHEEN PACHYSANDRA
Pachysandra terminalis
Buy Green Sheen Pachysandra online. Lustrous, shiny green leaves of this evergreen groundcover and the plant's tidy habit make this a landscape winner. It grows in deep shade and is ideal for using under shallow rooted trees.
Starting at $25.00
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DWARF GARTERS RIBBON GRASS
Phalaris arundinacea Dwarf Garters
Buy Dwarf Garters Ribbon Grass online. This low-growing groundcover grass is an excellent spreader, and a great idea for those looking to cover large areas. The leaves on this ornamental plant are variegated, and are striped with green, white, and even hints of pink. Can be somewhat invasive.
Starting at $35.00
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SCOTCH MOSS
Sagina subulata aurea
Buy Scotch Moss online. Creeping, yellow-green foliage. Small white star like flowers in summer. Best suited for cooler climates, does not like heat.
Starting at $15.00
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GOLDEN ACRE SEDUM
Sedum acre Aurea
Buy Golden Acre Sedum online. Golden Acre Sedum features a low carpet of tiny succulent leaves which turn buttery yellow during the summer. Tiny golden star flowers appear in the early summer. This groundcover is drought-resistant and is perfect for edging or rock gardens.
Starting at $15.00
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WEIHENSTEPHANER GOLD SEDUM
Sedum floriferum Weihenstephaner Gold
Buy Weihenstephaner Gold Sedum online. A semi-evergreen, groundcover type sedum. Produces clusters of golden yellow flowers early to late summer. Foliage is blue-green and slightly serrated edges and turns slightly red in winter
Starting at $15.00
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FULDAGLUT SEDUM
Sedum spurium Fuldaglut
Buy Fuldaglut Sedum online. Has bronze and fleshy leaves that turn burgundy in the fall on this semi-evergreen groundcover type sedum. Dramatic pinkish red flowers drape this durable perennial in late summer. It is ideal for rock gardens.
Starting at $15.00
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TRICOLOR SEDUM
Sedum spurium Tricolor
Buy Tricolor Sedum online. Bright colored variegated green, pink and white foliage. A great contrasting groundcover for rock gardens. Pink flowers in late spring
Starting at $25.00
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VOODOO SEDUM
Sedum spurium Voodoo
Buy Voodoo Sedum online. Boasts dark mahogany toned foliage with clusters of rosy-red flowers.
Starting at $15.00
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ATLANTIS® SEDUM
Sedum takesimense Nonsitnal
Buy Atlantis® Sedum online. This is no ordinary sedum! You can't help but stop and stare at this beautifully variegated groundcover stonecrop from Hortech, Inc.. Small, serrated leaves are dark green with very wide creamy yellow margins. From a distance, the margins are what catch your eye. You may notice that the creamy margins become tinged with pink blush tones with cold temperatures late in fall. A great choice for tucking into rock gardens or dry landscapes.
Starting at $25.00
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CORAL REEF SEDUM
Sedum tetractinum Coral Reef
Buy Coral Reef Sedum online. A slow growing, spreading and fleshy bright green foliage that is sometimes tinged with a salmon pink is characteristic of this Chinese sedum. Profuse clusters of white to pale pink flowers appear in summer. Will grow with a spreading habit.
Starting at $15.00
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SUNSPARKLER® BLUE ELF SEDUM
Sedum x
Buy Sunsparkler® Blue Elf Sedum online. Sunsparkler® Blue Elf Sedum forms a low, dense carpet of steel-blue foliage with crimson flower clusters. Great mass planted on slopes, green roof systems or as a groundcover.
Starting at $15.00
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ANGELINA SEDUM
Sedum x Angelina
Buy Angelina Sedum online. 'Angelina' is brilliant yellow-orange succulent with spiny-looking foliage and will contrast well in any garden. Extremely drought tolerant, this plant is a must for all rock gardens
Starting at $15.00
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GOLD THYME
Thymus citriodorus Aureas
Buy Gold Thyme online. A sun-loving, ornamental groundcover with green and gold foliage. Lavender pink flowers bloom in summer. Foliage releases a wonderful lemon scent when crushed.
Starting at $15.00
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WOOLLY THYME
Thymus pseudolanuginosus
Buy Woolly Thyme online. Has evergreen, silver-gray, woolly foliage with great texture. Rarely blooms. Great texture, ground-hugging, nice spreading ground cover. Does not like humidity or moisture.
Starting at $25.00
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PINK CHINTZ CREEPING THYME
Thymus x Serphyllum
Buy Pink Chintz Creeping Thyme online. A very low-growing evergreen groundcover. Salmon-pink blooms drown the plant in early spring. Tolerant of dry conditions but thrives in moist soils.
Starting at $15.00
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SNOW N SUMMER™ ASIATIC JASMINE
Trachelospermum asiaticum HOSNS
Buy Snow-n-Summer Asiatic Jasmine online. Snow-n-Summer™ Asiatic Jasmine is a woody, evergreen groundcover vine that can be trained to climb. It's typically used as a foliage plant due to its ever-changing palette of colors throughout the year. In spring, new growth is produced as pure white to pink new leaves, that oftentimes showoff amazing variegation from spotting to streaks of dark, glossy green through each leaf. In summer, the leaves will darken to dark, glossy green and can show some creamy white variegation in the veins. The fall and winter seasons bring colors of intense dark pink and green leaves. Perfect for planting in rock gardens or next to water features, as well as planting in between stepping stones, tucked into rock walls, and along borders.
Starting at $15.00
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SUMMER SUNSET ASIATIC JASMINE
Trachelospermum asiaticum Summer Sunset
Buy Summer Sunset Asiatic Jasmine online. Summer Sunset Asiatic Jasmine is a beautiful vining groundcover that has multi-colored variegated foliage of amber, green and gold in spring. Drought tolerant once established. Full sun to partial shade.
Starting at $15.00
Groundcovers
Browse below our list of ground cover varieties perfect for solving landscape problems like shady bare spots, erosion areas, rocky spots, hard to mow areas and areas that just need some color or texture.
