8 Stunning Ground Cover Plants - Create A Carpet Of Color & Texture (even in difficult places!)
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Hooked and Rooted is a gardening show on UA-cam. My shows & content include topics such as: Offering gardening tips for beginners, low maintenance garden ideas, landscaping for beginners, new build garden transformations, how to make your garden beautiful, sharing perennial plants and evergreen shrubs for the garden, and the best ground cover plants you can plant in your garden.
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About this video:
Have you ever gotten tired of mulching? Truth be told, while I love the look of a newly mulched garden, I really don't enjoy the work involved. Over the last several years, I've been adding ground covers to some areas. My hope is that over time, these ground cover perennials and evergreens will continue to spread, so that those areas will require little to no mulch. Which means less effort on my part to maintain a beautiful garden. Tell me are you team mulch, or team groundcover, or do you prefer a combination of both? Thanks for watching - Steph (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b) #gardening #gardeningtips
I just wanted to compliment you on your presentation skills! Articulate, speaks reasonably quick and provided lots of info. Good job!
Thank you so much for your kind words 🥰
Beautiful garden
Thank you for putting names on the screen!
My favorite is Sweet Woodruff. I love the pretty white flowers and the smell of the flowers in the spring.
You have just hit the nail on the head! I came across this video this morning just as I was reviewing my bed. Every spring once I know what’s coming up I put on a layer of mulch but I thought next year I would not add mulch and just add compost along with some ground covers. So how timely is this video for me. Thank you so much and I must say I love your no nonsense narration.
I’m hooked and rooted too! Much love from Chicago❤️❤️❤️
That's my goal! Adding mulch to our beds year in and year out is a true pain - and I'm not getting any younger, lol!
Hi Margaret! I agree, less mulching is always a good thing. We're beginning edging this week so that hopefully we can get our mulch next week, and definitely not looking forward to moving that big pile.
Your presentation was perfection! You’ve done such a beautiful job. Thank you for sharing
I, too, love my Purple Dragon Lamium. Creeping Thyme is also one of my favorites. I left 5 small planting containers with dirt at the edges of my creeping thyme over the fall and winter, and I just planted those five clumps in another area of my garden. They grew up through the bottom of the containers. My sedum overtook my creeping phlox, so I just let it keep growing. It's a bit thuggish, but I like it. I enjoyed your video with examples of ground covers. Thank you.
Hi Steph! Amazing video as always! You are a natural! Thank you for all of the gardening advice and for sharing your beautiful garden with gardeners around the world.
Thank you so much!
This is the next goal for my garden adding a bunch of ground cover in open spaces. I’m over buying all this mulch yours are beautiful
I have been looking for ground cover ideas. You have given me a lot of great options! Thank you.
That's great to hear Tamara! Thanks for watching 🌱
Hellebores for me, the blooms are so spectacular!
I have almost all of them you mentioned, my hope is eventually a lot less mulch!
Here in my California garden, my favorite ground cover is creeping thyme. It's especially useful because it can take foot traffic well, smells good when stepped on and is evergreen for me. I also have a low growing geranium with a white bloom that I don't know the name of, but I am able to divide it frequently, also evergreen for me. And I also have a sedum that is similar to the bronze one you showed, but this one is a silvery green.
I have an ajuga ground cover and it has blue bloom spikes right now as well as I have a hardy geramanium that has pink blooms and it is doing really well. I think I will divide it up this fall. Thank you for your tour. Love your channel.
I have many of the ones you mentioned too! One of my favs for really sunny spots is creeping thyme. ‘Thymus Annie Hall’ is my favorite variety of the creeping thymes. It’s an improvement of ‘Mother of Thyme’. Beautiful growing in between stepping stones and bonus-it stands up to my kids running through it,which is a major plus for me! 😊
That sounds like a great Variety Joanna! I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing 🌱
I have silver leaf Artesia and lots of sedum varieties! Love sedum
Nice work ! Great camera person! Good editing. Quick identification of species and printed names on the screen.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for your kind words.
Really appreciate the honest take on mulching! Your garden looks beautiful with those perennials and evergreens.
I don't know if it's technically considered a ground-cover but I have a tricolor sage plant that I absolutely love. I bought it on a whim last year, and I wish I would have bought more because I haven't come across it again this year. It cascades over my landscaping stones so nicely.
I just bought one in Wisconsin at a local garden center! So pretty
Magical I love it
It's great to find out you are also in zone 6! Gives me ideas for plants that I can actually grow.😊😊😊😊 Thanks
I love your garden, the birdsong and Maverick. Thank you.
I love all these selections they’re beautiful every year 🍃🌺🍃
Steph, I’ve been loving all of the videos you’ve been making! This one especially was perfect timing! I love geraniums because they’re shade and juglone tolerant under my mature black walnut trees! ❤
So many lovely choices! I hope to incorporate several soon!!
I agree with your assessment on more plants,,,and flower coverages
I love helebore and you've got a beautiful variety of plants. Thank you ❤
I am just getting started with ground covers in the garden. I love them in my pots and now adding more to the garden. The one in the garden that I really enjoy is the Bugleweed Black Scallop. It’s so beautiful to me. Thanks for sharing the others as I need more ideas to add to the garden.
I just bought the juniper I can’t wait to plant it. I have so many favorites too. I really like creeping Jenny and the lambs ear
STEPH, your ga4den beds are looking really good !! I'm aiming for more ground covers because at 74 less mulching is a good thing !! 😊
Thank you so much Linda! I agree, mulching less at any age is a great thing. More time enjoying our gardens, and less time working in them 😉💚
Creeping Jenny is the perfect ground cover. Turns golden yellow in the sun, and it grows so aggressively that weeds don't stand a chance. In the south, we have to grow it in part shade to keep it from taking over, but in your more moderate northern climate, it should not spread in an undesirable way since the shorter season puts it to sleep. It tends to like moisture, but it will take remarkable drought once established. Pretty amazing plant.
It’s also very easy to pull when it goes where you don’t want it to!
Extremely invasive.
one other thing to note, you can pick a piiece of it, stick it somewhere in the ground, if it doesn't take off that year, it will the next. I'm in alabama and have it in a place that gets morning & early afternoon sun, surrounding roses.
Please do not plant creeping Jenny. Is non-native and it is very invasive.
I find creeping Jenny very aggressive and somewhat of a bully. Easy enough to pull.. I have it everywhere and I’ve always “weeding it out”
Thank you for your video, am definitely gonna try some of these.
Loved this vid! Such beautiful plants which also serve a practical purpose. I have ajuga and urge it to spread as it is so unusual and great for the front border. I also enjoy creeping Jenny for similar reasons and its chartreuse color. Great job, Steph! Your garden is looking beautiful. Continued blessings…
I ended up getting some Lamium to put in some small containers that I put on the deck . I’ll transplant them to the garden at the end. I noticed your Jacob’s Lader is looking beautiful. Great video. ❤❤❤
Thanks for your response. You are one of my favorite!
This video is right on time. I am deciding on ground covers are great.
Great video, Steph! I love groundcovers! They check all the boxes, easy, beautiful and weed free! I have most of the ones you showed as well as The Blue Spruce sedum. That and the Angelina sedum are my favorites! I have the flowering Lamb's Ear but now I need to find the Helen Von Stein! Yours is beautiful! 💚
I love pachysandra for dry areas, always evergreen. Longwood and Winterthur have huge areas under trees with this cover.
Always so happy to see a new video! You and George are the best!
Hi Jennifer! Thank you so much for your kind words, and for watching my videos. I really appreciate the support, thank you. So happy you are here!💚
Your garden is amazing, I loved the video on perennials for beginners Thank You
Thanks for showing your ground covers & info.love the lambs ear, blue rug juniper & the sedium. 💚🌱😊
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching Patricia! 🌱
Absolutely agree lambs ear is great for groundcover and texture
Ajuga is the gift that keeps on giving, as well as Lamb’s Ear. Sedum is my favorite but I planted several varieties in pots. They serve containers well, especially Angelina and Lime Zinger.
I love the lamium your friend gave you it looks really cool with a stripe
I also have ajuga chocolate chip. Started out with two 8 cell containers five years ago and now it's spread out everywhere. Love the flowers in spring.
I am a huge fan of ice plants as groundcovers!
Great content. I got so much inspiration from this video. I'm really enjoying your channel and appreciate that yours is unique!
This year my creeping Jenny is really spreading and adding color. Also John Creech sedum has spread and is about to bloom. Excited to have ground covers and not so much mulch!
I love seeing all these lovely plants!! Your garden shows the pleasure that you & yr. husband take in creating it - thank you for the great ideas for ground covers!
Thank you so much!
I really like the Pacific Blue juniper. It has a nice blue tint and it spreads wonderfully
Lemon coral sedum is my new favorite groundcover!
Enjoyed this video,,,very informative..been working 3 yrs on a home I bought that had nothing in the yard ..back and front....its really coming together..as like you..I love to put color..plants..shrubs..and conifers.....
Thanks for sharing the varieties of ground cover. I also use creeping thyme serphyllum in an extremely hot, dry area which is contained. It is so fragrant by our back door. Sedum Angelina is also a favorite in my garden. No muss, no fuss, no mulch!
Beautiful gardens! I have barrenwort, which I love & sweet woodruff, lamiun 'white nancy', white anemone 'snowdrop'. Many varieties of geranium, so easy.
Beautiful and good video
I love to use ground covers in place of mulch, I have many varieties all around my garden. I’m happy to know about some of these options, especially the blooming ones. I have actually been restoring a long bed beside my driveway that was mulched for two decades, and it was actually more like dust than soil. Now that I’m thickly planting the space and not using shredded mulch, the soil is really shaping up. My favorite shade ground cover is pachysandra, some say it’s invasive, but if I can easily pull it and it doesn’t climb, I don’t categorize it as such. Great video, thanks! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱😀
Great choices for ground cover. I have all of them in my zone 6a Michigan garden and I can vouch for each one of them. They are so fantastic and great performers.
Thank you so much!! So glad you enjoy them in your garden as well 🌱
Hi, Love them all! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much! 😊
Thanks for showing the ground covers you have in your garden! All look beautiful! My choice would be the lambs ear variety you have in your garden.
I took one clump of violets from my parents yard many years ago. I’ve been able to do away with mulch in one garden bed. I’m starting to transplant to my other large bed to do away with the annual chore and cost of throwing down bags of mulch. Yes they pop up all over my yard but they can be popped out with a weed popper if need be. They also give bunnies something to eat instead of my plants . Oh and they choke out weeds like crazy. They are just stunning in spring with their tiny purple flowers.
Always looking forward to your videos ...my favorite is the sedumm
I love ajuga too Steph! I have some in my garden and they are filling in nicely. I won't have to mulch as much this year! 😁
I love Scotch Moss, especially when it blooms. It is a great ground cover but unfortunately it doesn’t live very long. I planted Ajuga 'Black Scallop' and ‘ Burgundy glow’ last fall. I also love October Daphne Stonecrop. The ground cover I hope to add this spring is Blue Creeping Sedum.
Ajuga is a favorite of mine. Easy to grow and thrive in my hot, humid climate. The purple dragon is beautiful. I like annual if possible.
Hi Stef 🌺. I love all these groundcovers in your garden . I have sedum , Iceplant , Lewisia ,afrecan daisy ... Have a wonderful day. 🌺🌻🌺
That's wonderful Lina! They are great alternatives to having to use too much mulch. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day!
I have a variegated purple flowering ajuga that I love! They're so easy and add early spring interest.
I agree! 🌱
great video, i love them all also. i need to get some more lambs ear. also nice not having to mulch as much. thanks for sharing. hope you have a great day!
I have most of these. Also bishops weed (invasive) and we'll behaved Japanese Spurgeon make great ground covers. Thanks
I love my Water Perry Speedwell for sun. And Tidal Blue Veronica as well
Thank you so much for sharing Angela!
Thanks Steph, great question from the 'camera man' hellebores it is.
Le géranium macrorrhizum est le plus intéressant : il pousse très très vite, couvre les zones ingrates du jardin, « absorbe » les feuilles qui tombent des arbres donc plus besoin de les ratisser. Il ne disparaît pas beaucoup en hiver, se déplace facilement, n’est jamais malade. La varieté Spessart à fleurs blanches et rose pâle est la plus jolie. C’est un vrai couvre sol super efficace et les abeilles en raffolent.
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I enjoyed watching your video and the information shared about ground covers which cuts down on mulching. I have planted creeping phlox as a ground cover and thinking about trying thyme. The previous owners here had sedum in their garden that is colorful as well. Interesting certain types of ajuga are not invasive, I am doing over the gardens here so appreciate all your suggestions and especially like your lambs ears, dead nettle, and European ginger. Have a great day & thanks again for the info!
Great information!!!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching 🌱
I have many of the ground covers you mentioned and would have a hard time picking a favorite. I have the chocolate chip, a variegated and an ajuga call toucan with chartreuse foliage. Just planted an orchid frost lamium and golden feathers solomons seal. Also have a hardy geranium with chocolate foliage and violet flowers. My blue rug juniper has spread down a hillside and is perfect for that site. I never thought of hellebores as ground cover but you are right. I can never seem to get enough of them. I love to plant them in containers for the winter and then put them in the landscape in spring.
Last year was first year I bought two ground cover sedums, Rock N Low Boogie Wookiee stonecrop, to see if I liked them… love them! Planning to add more this year…. Thanks for showing so many varieties.
Hi Cheryl! Those sound so pretty! sedums make great ground covers.
I have a slope under large trees that I have been filling in w ground cover because it’s sloped and shady so grass doesn’t grow well there at all. After 6 years it’s finally pretty filled in and it’s beautiful! I have vinca, ajuga, creeping Ginny, and some nettle. It’s all beautiful 🥰
I like the Sedum as a ground cover they look really nice.
Thanks Ana! 🌱
I do love the sedum and creeping Jenny does well in my zone 8a garden. Lamium has been a struggle for me but I really like it. Thanks 😊
Greeting's from Ireland, I grow ajuga and brunerra jack frost in pot's and orvala in the garden bed.
I have a ground cover, Creeping Jenny, and I don't like it...but I do like your Sedum and the colors give great interest. Thank you for highlighting the ground covers.❤ ❤❤ ❤❤❤❤
Hi Steph I grow everyone you mentioned… also with wooddrift, candytuft, ferns, creeping Jenny & creeping phlox.
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing the other varieties you grow, those are great choices as well! I love ferns, creeping jenny and phlox also and have some in my garden 🌱
Lamium is my favorite!
I have Hellebore
Sedum
Lambs ear
Never heard them called ground cover but makes sense 🙂🌿 thank you for sharing!!
@HookedandRooted ☘️ Your plants are so healthy! Gorgeous hellebores! I am currently obsessed with ajugas & lamiums. I have big dreams for _MY_ European Ginger but it’s taking its sweet, sweet time! 😝
I have burgundy glow, blue spruce sedum, Angelina sedum. Thanks for the additional ground covers. I do have Hellebores too and Phlox
your videos are great
Thank you so much Sue, glad you enjoy them 🌱
I’m also a fan of Sweet Woodruff.
European Ginger is probably my favorite groundcover…I find mine grows best in dappled light and rich soil, Steph. 😊
Thank you so much Carolyn! Its a beautiful one 🌱
Great suggestions for ground covers Steph. I prefer ground covers to mulch. I love hellebores too.
I agree Sue! I plan to incorporate more and more as time goes on.
I have the purple dragon and it spreads like crazy in our area. 6b western Colorado I have to trim it throughout the season so it doesn’t choke out my other plants . I actually dig up a ton this winter and only kept a little since it spreads so well. And it growing and spreading like crazy.
Yes I have a couple of ground covers I have chocolate chip ajuga and sedum Angelina. I want to get more and cut down on the mulch. I heard ground covers work as good as mulch and I want to try that. Thanks for the video.
Those are some beautiful ground covers. European ginger is really hard to find in garden centres I've found but I'm still looking! I'm not a fan of all the plastic landscape cloth. It doesn't really stop weeds long term and it contributes to microplastic in the environment. And if you have mulch on top, weeds grow into the mulch and roots into the cloth, making it extremely difficult to remove the weeds. It's not necessary under a deep mulch (it stops the mulch being able to improve your soil) or under pavers.
Here in Zone 9b in SoCal Ivy geraniums provide a perfect pop for a colorful ground cover drift.
I have been thinking of adding ground cover so I have less mulch to spread. I'm loving the lamuim and thinking it might be a good choice but loving the others you showed.
On that slope I would try a rock garden combination dry river bed.
My favorite ground covers are Ceratostigma and Geranium macrorizome
Thank you so much for sharing! I planted some Ceratostigma (plumbago) last fall! Its starting to return for me here. 🌱
Thank you for another great video. I have the Chameleon plant for ground cover. Also known as Rainbow plant.
Chameleon plant is extremely invasive! Be careful. I lived to regret planting it!
I have that same sedum and it's really pretty
We are also trying to up our groundcover game.. but largely leaning on natives because of their adaptability AND availability as starts or plugs to cover wider areas…. The tiarella Elizabeth Oliver is relatively easy to establish in shady areas and in sunnier spots, barren strawberry….