Sedum Telephium

Sedum Telephium is a perennial low maintenance plant and grows up to 60cm (2 feet) height and width. Sedum Telephium blooms showy pink cluster flowers in late spring to autumn and attract bees and butterflies well. And this plant is often used as ground cover, border, pot, and rock garden plant.

Purple Flowers of Bugleweed

Bugleweed is a member of mint family and used as herb. Bugleweed is a perennial evergreen plant and has flowers (popular color of this plant is purple) from spring to early summer and used as ground cover using its aggressive invasive habit.

Dwarf Cherry Laurel

Dwarf Cherry Laurel is often called as English Laurel. This plant is an evergreen shrub and grows 1.2m (4 feet) height and 2.4m (8 feet) width and popular as a hedge plant, ground cover and some other purposes. As you can see some flower buds on the picture, Dwarf Cherry Laurel has white flowers in late spring followed by poisonous berries.

Flowers of Himalayan Sweetbox

Himalayan Sweetbox is evergreen shrub even though this plant sometime is used as ground cover. Himalayan Sweetbox grows 1.5m (5 feet) height and width and grows well in shaded area. Himalayan Sweetbox has fragrant white small flowers in early spring.

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Cast-Iron Plant

Cast-Iron Plant is popular evergreen garden plant in Japan. This plant is very easy to grow in shaded area; it needs almost no care at all. Cast-Iron Plant often used as ground cover or pot plant. In Japan we call this plant as “Haran (葉蘭)” and often used cut leaves for decorating Japanese foods especially sushi and sashimi.

Japanese Sweet Flag

Japanese Sweet Flag is perennial grass like plant. This plant prefers to grow in wet areas even though it can grow regular garden if you give it plenty of water everyday. The leaves of Japanese Sweet Flag are about 30cm (one foot) long and some cultivars are available. Japanese Sweet Flag spreads with its rhizomes densely so this plant is used as a ground cover of wet area.

Creeping Juniper

Creeping Juniper is great evergreen ground cover plant. It grows 0.6m (2 feet) height and 3m (10feet) width in full sun and relatively dry area, and it is easy to take care of it. So the important point for planting Creeping Juniper is to keep wide enough area for each of it, never plant it in dense condition.

Big Blue Lily Turf

Big Blue Lilyturf is easy to grow plant. This plant grow well in both area; full sun and shade area. They have purple flower in summer. Big Blue Lily Turf is usually used as ground cover.

Vinca

This is a flower of Vinca. Occasionally this plant is used as ground cover.