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Ground Cover Plants
Ground cover plants are a brilliant way to pack your garden full of colourful plants, adding some structure and form to your borders and plots and reducing the need for weeding!
We supply a choice of flowering ground cover plants, ground cover plants for full sun or shade, as well as those plants that create a fragrant, floral or lush 'carpet' to enhance your planting scheme.
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Adriatic Bellflower
A pretty perennial which will slowly spread to form a delicate looking ground cover. Clusters of blue star like flowers with white centres are produced all summer long.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants.
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Aubrieta 'Cascade' Mixed
An old and reliable variety that produces large flowers in a mixture of blue, purple and carmine red. Performs well in full sun and poorer soils. Evergreen. Ground Cover.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants (supplied in mixed colours only).
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Bird-bill Dayflower 'Electric Blue'
Thin grass like leaves terminate in a pretty blue flower that look like miniature Iris. Each flower lasts just a day. Profuse in flowering. An excellent summer ground cover.
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Bloody Cranesbill
This hardy geranium is tough as old boots! Rosy purple pink flowers smother the bright green foliage throughout the Summer. A superb ground cover.
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Calypso Magic
Truly spectacular! Deep crimson red, sunburnt yellow, tangerine, pink, white and intermediate colour shades. Drought tolerant. Ground Cover.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants (supplied in mixed colours only).
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Chameleon Plant
Bright green leaves become overlaid with shades of cream and red. Masses of white flowers mid summer. Tolerates both very wet and very dry soils.
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Supplied as a pot grown plant.
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Coral Bells 'Palace Purple'
A beautiful evergreen that forms a mound of puckered purple leaves topped with small bell-shaped pinky white flowers in late Spring to early Summer. Ground Cover.
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Corkscrew Rush
Contorted and twisted green stems form attractive clumps. Happy in damper conditions so perfect for pond-side planting. Evergreen in habit.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants.
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Evening Primrose
Also known as Ozark Sundrops. Bright golden yellow flowers open late in the afternoon. A beautiful ground cover with excellent drought tolerance.
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Heath Pearlwort Lawn
Also known as Irish Moss. In our opinion the best of all ground cover lawn alternatives! Utterly hardy, excellent drought resistance. Tolerant of fairly heavy foot traffic.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants.
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Helleborus Cottage Mixed
A mixture of varieties and cultivars that will produce flowers or varying colour and form. Provide much needed colour and interest over the Winter and Spring.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants supplied in mixed colours and varieties only).
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Herb Of Jupiter Plant
Botanically it is known as Sempervivum, but also known as the House Leek. Great for rockery gardens in a sunny position. Has many health benefits.
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Supplied as a pot grown plant.
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Lenten Rose 'Helen Ballard's' Hybrids
Waxy flowers up to 3" (7.5 cm) in diameter are sure to cheer up the dark months of winter. Happy in sun or shade. Good drought resistance.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants (supplied in mixed colours only).
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Lily of The Valley
A real Victorian favourite. Gorgeous sweetly scented white bell like flowers. Lush green semi-evergreen foliage. A lovely ground cover and perfect for semi-shade.
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Supplied as freshly lifted 'pips' / growing plants depending on time of year.
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Maiden Pink 'Brilliancy'
Rich green foliage hugs tightly to the ground and is smothered in small bright red flowers from late spring into autumn. A fairly quick spreading evergreen ground cover.
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Mexicana Gazania
A real sun lover! Large daisy like flowers in a stunningly vivid range of colours. Rich green foliage. Perfect for tubs and containers or 'blanket' planting.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants (supplied in mixed colours only).
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Milly's Honey Bee Flower Plant Mixture
A lovely mixture of pollinator friendly plants. Plant out in drifts to give a pretty show of colour all through the Summer until first frosts.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants (each block containing approximately 8 different plants).
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Mind Your Own Business
Forms a carpet of tiny green leaves just a few inches tall. A lovely ground cover plant and particularly pretty when used for edging paths.
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Supplied as a clump grown in a 7cm pot.
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Mind Your Own Business - Glaucous Form
The glaucous form of this pretty ground cover. Tiny grey-green foliage blankets the ground. Perfect for establishing in the cracks of pavements or edging paths.
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Supplied as a clump grown in a 7cm pot.
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Mind Your Own Business - Pale Green Form
Pale green foliage clothes the ground. Better in sunnier conditions than other forms of Mind Your Own Business. A cheerful ground cover for greenhouse or garden alike.
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Supplied as a clump grown in a 7cm pot.
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Molly's Cottage Garden Flower Plant Mixture
A lovely selection of different flowers that will give a gorgeous display all summer long. Plant in tubs and planters or mass plant for a stunning show.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants (each block containing approximately 8 plants).
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Monkey Flower
A real dash of colour for the herbaceous border or pond side. Bright scarlet, yellow, orange or cream coloured flowers have a contrasting splotch of colour.
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Supplied as compost block grown plants (supplied in mixed colours only).
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Pennyroyal
A lovely soil hugging ground cover that exudes a powerful scent of peppermint when crushed. Pretty lavender-blue flowers through the summer months. The smallest leaved of all the mints.
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Sweet Violet
A beautiful little flower with the most amazing scent. Is an excellent ground cover and likes the shade (although will grow in a sunny position too).
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Supplied as compost block grown plants.
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Wild White Clover Seed
This provides excellent pollen for honey bees, is very easy to grow and looks really pretty with it's white flowers! Will grow on poor soil. Perennial.
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Supplied as a packet of approximately 3000 seeds - sufficient for an area of 50 square metres.
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Chamomile Lawn
A special seed grown strain of dwarf chamomile. The rich green foliage is beautifully scented when crushed under foot. Evergreen. Ground Cover.
Available from approximately late June 2013.
Supplied as compost block grown plants.
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Coral Bells 'Bressingham Hybrids'
A beautiful evergreen that forms a mound of puckered green leaves. Early Summer delicate small bell-shaped flowers in shades of pink rise on wiry stems. Ground Cover.
Available from approximately mid July 2013.
Supplied as compost block grown plants.
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Creeping Thyme Lawn
Makes a lovely lush green carpet which is surmounted by tiny pink flowers in the summer. Highly aromatic when crushed under foot. Evergreen.
Available from approximately mid June 2013.
Supplied as compost block grown plants.
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Periwinkle (Lesser)
Very pretty star-like blue flowers appear sporadically through spring summer and autumn. Rich green foliage carpets the ground. Tough and utterly hardy. Evergeen.
Available from approximately mid November.
Supplied as bare rooted plants.
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Polyanthus 'Pacific Giants' Mixed
Pretty flowers in a profusion of colours very early in the spring. Flowers can be up to 3" (7.5 cm) in diameter and are delicately scented. Perfect for low maintenance spring flower borders.
Available from approximately late September 2013.
Supplied as compost block grown plants (supplied in mixed colours only).
