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Exotic style ground cover plant ideas
I’d love to know what you all grow as exotic style ground cover plants. Please share pics and ideas 😁
The pic is a combo of mine, Saxifraga stolonifera with Impatiens omeiana ‘Pink Nerves’. Both hardy down to -5°C.
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Trying wild ginger, large leaf Ajuga and a new one Muehlenbeckia
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This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Mike Clayton.
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This wild Ginger is a favourite of mine 👌
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With most of my hosta being devoured by slugs and snails last year I’m giving Brunnera Macrophylia – Siberian bugloss a try.
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Love these, I’ve got one in my garden this year.
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I like the saxifraga stolonifera too, but I’ve been trying to encourage it to trail over the sides of a hanging basket rather than use for ground cover – will defo try it with some of its runners this summer. Also really like the wild ginger, but it’s not grown much/covering much yet.
I think some of my favourite ground cover is where moss has just appeared, also ‘mind your business’ (mines a container garden, so I don’t have to worry about it infesting a lawn or anything). I also let herb Robert self seed around the base potted trees etc, where a lot of other ground cover plants would struggle to grow. Another favourite is this selaginella – growing underneath some farfugiums. Like a lot of people I have a love/hate thing for hostas – I have settled for moving them (and putting Brunnera in their place) underneath a fatsia where it won’t annoy me too much if the slugs get them again 🙂
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Looks great! Have you tried Geranium palmatum? Its hardier than Geranium maderense, but with similar flowers. It self seeds like Herb Robert but is much more exotic in appearance. 🙂
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