As fall marches on and wintertime is just around the corner , it ’s of import to recollect that your landscape painting can stay quite beautiful even when the temperature dips below zero . While evergreen of all kind tot up texture and color to the wintertime garden , I also intend that a winter garden is incomplete without a quilt - the like swathe of evergreen groundcovers .
I ’m not talking about pachysandra and Vinca minor , though these two usual ground cover do stay light-green throughout the wintertime . I ’m speak about a group of less - plebeian , low - growing groundcovers that have made a home in my own garden , smothering it with prime in the summer and coloration and texture in the winter . Without them , my garden would be a far less interesting place during wintertime ’s rule .
Here are some of my favourite winter - hearty groundcovers :
1.Ajuga reptansThis full evergreen groundcover is very audacious and comes in a broad range of leafage colour and texture . It hugs the ground at a simple 1/2 inch in height and is cover with spires of purplish - blue flowers in spring . Ajuga , commonly called bugleweed , is a fast , yet controlled , spreader that prefer full to fond shade . I get a tricolored smorgasbord telephone Burgundy Glow that ’s a lovely blend of pinkish , dark-green and blanched foliage . Metallica Crispa is another favorite , with crisp , dark - green / burgundy leaf .
2.Asarum europaeumEuropean ginger might not be the quickest - growing evergreen plant groundcover , but it ’s surely one of the most attractive . Bearing sheeny , heart - shaped , 3 - column inch - wide folio that stand a mere 3 to 5 inches tall , European ginger is very hardy . It prefers full to partial wraith and is deer - resistant .
3.Iberis sempervirensEvergreen candytuft has been around a farsighted time . My mama grew it when I was a kid and I have loved it ever since . put out in staring - white flowers in spring , this plant remains a rich , late unripe all winter long . It does not spread via underground roots like some other groundcovers , but rather it makes a gravid , billowing clump and develops root along the stem as it grow . It is very easy to start from stem turn cut and thrives in full Sunday .
4.ThymusspeciesIt urns out that thyme is n’t just utile in the kitchen . It ’s also a great winter - favorable groundcover . With slews of species and century of cultivar , you ca n’t go wrong with this lovely small plant . motley , wooly , creeping , risky , lemon - sweet-scented and English thyme variety all thrive in hot , sunny areas with well - drained stain . Thyme does best when kick in a even haircut , so glean as much as you need for the kitchen early in the season and then let the plant modernise oodles of new growth before wintertime sets in .
5.Liriope spicataThe dark-skinned green , strap - similar foliage of lilyturf remain evergreen plant through most of the winter , though sometimes mine turn brown around the leafage border just before spring arrives . Variegated build are also quite interesting . In spring , spike of empurpled - blue flowers poke out of the centre . Lilyturf spread out at a moderate pace and is worthy for both full Dominicus and partial spectre . If you ’d like , you may mow the plants down each leap to encourage novel , deep immature increment .
6.Sedum rupestreAngelinaOK , so this is n’t actually evergreen — it ’s ever - yellow . Angelina is a new acquisition for my garden , and so far I am loving it . The succulent , golden - yellow-bellied foliation hugs the ground at a mere 4 in in height . In spring it bears yellowish , champion - shaped flowers and in the cool temperatures of crepuscle and winter the foliage turn a beautiful reddish - amber color . Angelina is drouth - resistant and tolerant of blistering , cheery orbit . It is a vigorous grower than can be trimmed back at any metre . This plant life looks big acrobatics over rock or keep back walls .
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