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Hi, I am David Epstein. Welcome to Growing Wisdom and today we talk about ground covers. There are so many ground covers out there, it would be impossible to cover them. We could do a whole website on ground covers, but let us talk about the few.
In my hands here, I have Siberian carpet grass. This is a wonderful ground cover for part sun, even some shady areas. This particular plant looks like a Juniper, but it is not. It is a wonderful plant that gets to be about five feet in circumference. It does well in many different soil types and it gets a wonderful bronze color in the winter. This is some of the collection of ground covers, and I really like the way that this looks. We have things like a sedum, this is blue spruce sedum. We have sweet woodruff. We have some “forget me not”, but it is just coming into bloom. We have this wonderful sedum angelina, which has this great yellowy orange color with the stems are a little bit darker than that. And next to that, we have some bearberry, not barberry, but bearberry, which is another spreading ground cover with does quite well.
Now, most of these like full sun, the sweet wood riffle takes some shade, but they do really well in terms of how to keep weeds down and that is why ground covers are so nice. They also create this patchwork color of carpet. That is what I really enjoy is just the different colors here, that you get with this very low ground covers.
Now, none of these gets very high. So when you are looking with ground covers to get above six or eight inches, these are not ground covers for you. Another great ground covers gets a little bit higher, is pulmonaria. And this particular pulmonaria here just in full bloom. I had to show it to you, but this will spread quite nicely, and again it really keeps the weeds down to great ground cover for part sun or part shade. Another ground cover, which makes a wonderful pop is a hakonechloa, and take a look at this grass. Wow! This is just an amazing; it has this great yellow color with a green margin in it. This will get fairly large and does pretty well in morning sunshine, with some afternoon shade. It really does hold its color. And our final ground cover is barren strawberry, or wild stemma. What a wonderful plant! This can go from full sun to full shade, and gets these beautiful little yellow flowers. It is called berry and strawberry, because it does not get any berries. This spreads really nicely, and makes a superior ground cover.
So there you have it, a bunch of ground covers for you to choose from. Here at growingwisdom.com
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