Posts Tagged ‘Ground Cover’

Sunny KnockOut® Rosa ‘RADsunny’

(Rose) Sunny KnockOut® Rosa will create a luminous glow in your garden with it’s cheerful, “sunny”, yellow flowers. It’s fragrant blooms emerge a bright yellow and turn creamy white when fully open. During the cooler weather the yellow color remains stronger. Sunny KnockOut® has disease resistant, dark foliage with an upright habit making it a perfect plant for hedges and garden boundaries.

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Table Mountain™ Delosperma ‘John Proffitt’

(Ice Plant) Table Mountain™ Delosperma is an improved Delosprema cooperi with delightful fuchsia colored flowers with bright yellow centers. The daisy-like flowers bloom from Spring to Fall above 2 inch high succulent foliage. Table Mountain™ is very heat and drought tolerant and looks great in a rock garden!

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Bangle™ Genista lydia ‘Select’

(Dyers-Greenwood) Bangle™ Genista is a new, more floriferous and longer blooming selection of Genista that produces waves of electric yellow flowers in early spring. After the spring bloom, this nearly leafless plant has bright green stems that provide interesting year round texture and color.  Bangle™ is easy to grow and makes a lovely low hedge of 2 feet tall by 2 feet wide. Heat tolerant and adaptable to nearly any well-drained soil. A Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Flowering Shrub.

Note from Heidi: I love the mass of mounding yellow color in the spring when this little jewel blooms. It gives the garden a great punch of yellow color when very few things are blooming.

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Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’

Spring color in greenhouse

(Foamy Bells) Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’ PPAF will hit the spot if your garden is thirsty for something new! The large cinnamon-colored veins are bordered by orange tea-colored edges. This intense new ‘Sweet Tea’ PPAF will darken in the summer and the color will lighten up again in the fall.

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Creeping Phlox

One of the first signs of Spring is the mass of color that Creeping Phlox Display. You see it on the hillsides, as borders, and planted hear and there in gardens.

Phlox colors range from snow white, candy striped, to shades of pink and lavender Phlox ushers in spring with a profusion of fabulous color.Creeping Phlox loves Full Sun and grows best in well drained soil.  Phlox is a versatile, low-growing perennial that flowers in late spring and grows well in rocky or sloped areas.

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Empress™ Clematis ‘Evipo 011′

This is the first time that I have actually seen Empress™ Clematis ‘Evipo 011‘ bloom. I was amazed at how beautiful it was! I took this picture and then went back 3 days later and the center antlers were opened up even more and I was even more amazed by its beauty and size of the bloom!

Empress™ Clematis is a charming clematis that will impress with a profusion of pink. This vine produces large double flowers that have pink petals with darker pink center bars. The inner petals sprout spiky pink “hair” and the plant blooms from May through June and again in August. Empress™ is a compact, free-flowering plant that displays well in containers.

Empress™ is part of Prune Group 2 which means- Prune lightly above the new leaf buds in early spring and remove any dead or weak stems. Early flowers appear on the previous season’s growth while late summer flowers appear on new growth.

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Axcent™ Blue with Eye Aubrieta hybrida

When I was on my walk through the greenhouses today I saw this gorgeous mass of bright blue blooms. Aubrieta is a early spring bloomer that carpets nicely in your rock gardens and fills out quickly with its vigorous growth habit. Axcent™ Blue with Eye was breed for its long bloom time and excellent heat resistance.

(Rockcress) Axcent™ Blue with Eye Aubrieta

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Strawberry ‘Fort Laramie’

Last year I was able to ’sample’ all of the Strawberries that we had grown. I would be working the store and as I walked past the berry bench I would sneak a berry now and then as they became ripe. I constantly would check the tag when I ate ‘Fort Laramie‘, the flavor was so sweet that I wanted to remember which variety it was.

(Everbearing Strawberry) Strawberry ‘Ft. Laramie’ produces large, sweet fruit and has excellent vigor. It is a good choice for commercial growers due to the amount of runners it produces. Strawberry ‘Ft Laramie’ is very cold hardy.

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Carex hachijoensis ‘Evergold’

Is a really nice and tidy two toned grass. I like that it stays green pretty much all winter long. In the spring when the plants start to wake up, ‘Evergold’ is there and ready for Spring. I have used Carex ‘Evergold’ in several places in my gardens. In the front landscape I have it planted in lava rock in front of my larger containers, it compliments nicely with all the annuals . In the backyard gardens I have it mixed in with the Heuchera and Heucherellas in a part shade location.  The foliage is amazing mixed in with the burgundy and purple leaves of the Heuchera. Take a look…

(Sedge) Carex ‘Evergold’ is a handsome semi-evergreen sedge with creamy-yellow and green variegated leaves. Compact mounding habit makes this an excellent choice for the front of the border. ‘Evergold’ prefers light shade. Very attractive foliage plant & Deer resistant!

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Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’

I really enjoy Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ because of the early spring forget-me-not flowers that it has. And when it is done blooming it has great foliage color contrast for the shade garden that lasts all summer.

Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens

(Heartleaf Brunnera) Brunnera ‘Jack Frost‘ PP13,859 is one of the most outstanding foliage perennials ever. The leaves are a frosted silver color with light green veins that break up the silvery overlay. The leaves of ‘Jack Frost’ PP13,859 look like cracked porcelain. The leaves shimmer in the sunlight and brighten any shady area. Blue forget-me-not flowers are an added bonus in the spring.

Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ PP13859 is a woodland plant that should be grown in shaded areas where the soil is rich and consistently moist. In northern climates, morning sun is acceptable as long as the soil do not dry out. Very little care is needed once Brunnera is established. Old foliage should be cut back in the spring rather than in the fall. The old foliage will help to protect the plant during the winter months. A winter mulch is also recommended. Propagation is by division.

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