![]() When spaced at 8′ intervals, this fast-growing vine covers a boring fence within a season. A mountain vine with rich green foliage turns fire engine red through October with blue fruit accents. Virginia Creeper is an Arizona native vine specially selected to dress up those miles of stockade fence. Super easy to grow and javelina, rabbit, and deer resistant. Because this flowering vine can take dry shade, it’s a problem solver. Vinca is most often seen with blue flowers the Alba cultivar of Vinca minor offers white blooms. Vinca minor, Dwarf Periwinkle, front of Alumni Center, 3/8/04, from a slide Guaranteed to attract more hummingbirds- animal resistant. Quickly covers large areas as a ground cover, spilling over retaining walls, screening a fence, or cloaking arbors. Once established, this vigorous vine thrives in heat and blooms profusely with neglect. Trumpet Vine has large clusters of red flowers that create a dramatic show all season long. To grow something different, try Chocolate Drop for its deliciously dark leaves. The entire group of plants are considered “succulents.” One of the most widely grown upright sedums is Autumn Joy growing to 18″ inches. Sedum, Angelina Stonecrop, has several varieties to choose from. The best colors are in full sun and grow knee-high by 4′ wide. The green is in the middle of the leaf and the brighter color on the edges. The bicolored pattern can be thought of as an inside-out version of the more popular Euonymus fortunei Emerald’ n’ Gold. Moonshadow Euonymus, Euonymus fortunei, is a broadleaf evergreen shrub with trademark bright variegated leaves. One of the best vines uses is dangling from the edges of hanging pots and baskets or cascading off the edges of tall urns planted with upright fillers-animal resistant. Quickly climbs walls, pillars, arbors, and fences without support. Large lustrous foliage stays waxed green through winter, forming a lush blanketing ground cover under large shrubs and trees. Plant with confidence, this cute evergreen rarely gets bugs, while rabbits, deer, and other vermin don’t like the taste.Įnglish Ivy is the only evergreen vine that stays green in shady gardens. Good on banks and to cover large open areas of rock in hot sunny locations. Give this low water user plenty of room because she spreads over 6 feet wide by one foot tall. The foliage is tinged in purple through autumn, which enhances the profusion of cranberry-type berries. An outstanding ground cover with dense foot tall branches covered with shiny evergreen leaves. Perfect when tucked between garden stepping as you stroll through the gardens, and very animal resistant.Ĭotoneaster is ideally suited to flow over embankments and raised beds. An excellent herbal fragrance is released when stepped on. ![]() Like most Mediterranean herbs, it thrives in dry, well-drained soil. Deep blue flowers arise in great masses that are both deer and pest-resistant.Ĭreeping Thyme is a drought-tolerant plant that loves brutal sun locations. Its habit is low and mounds just 12″ inches tall, and spreads vigorously. ![]() It is a superb ground cover for hot, dry locations. This tough little gem is the perfect plant for garden walls, pots, banks, or a dry, sunny patch of ground in the garden. If the excess is unwanted in the original garden area, divide them and spread the wealth to another plot in the yard.Ĭreeping Rosemary – imagine growing rosemary that tumbles over a wall or spreading across a dry rock lawn. Red, pink, white, blue, rose, lavender, even purple are all possible flower colors for this early-spring bloomer. Not only are they low-maintenance shrubs, but they also save work by holding back the soil on erosion-prone hillsides, thanks to their sturdy root systems.Ĭreeping Phlox has needle-like foliage that makes it drought-hardy in sunny gardens but most valued for its thick mat of flowers. Creeping junipers resist drought once established. Deer and javelina proof.Ĭreeping Juniper, Juniperus horizontalis, performs best in full 6+ hours of sun. This is the vine that has given Ivy-League schools their collective title. More orange than red, this natural garden vine resembles an Arizona sunset as it moves into November. It is one of the few vines that will self-cling to any surface, whether a cinder block wall or up a rock face. Related to its Virginia Creeper cousin, this plant has an added advantage. Many offer an evergreen solution to bare landscape plots.īoston Ivy – is entirely different from English Ivy and is much brighter in the garden. Here is the definitive list for local groundcovers grown in the brutal sun or dense shade. They also reduce yard maintenance by fighting erosion and suppressing weeds. The foliage provides visual interest across hills, between boulders, and down slopes. Ground cover plants are beneficial in so many ways.
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