Groundcovers
Green Gate Farms groundcovers are ultimate problem solvers! Chosen correctly, groundcovers reduce maintenance, increase aesthetics, define spaces, and lessen erosion. Groundcovers are mostly selected as landscape amendments, like under trees and shrubs or to frame entries or walkways. But, many groundcovers thrive as the feature planting in green roofs, green walls and related environmental plantings.
If you are familiar with plant names and know what species you're seeking, browse our complete list of available plant species listed alphabetically by botanical or common name.
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Ajuga reptans 'Black Scallop'Common Name: Bugleweed
Ajuga reptans 'Black Scallop', also known as Bugleweed, makes a nice semi-evergreen groundcover. Plants quickly form a low carpet of rounded, glossy leaves, purple-black in colour with a crinkly or scalloped texture. Short spikes of deep blue... [ More Info ]
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Ajuga reptans 'Bronze Beauty'Common Name: Bugleweed
'Bronze Beauty' is an attractive perennial ground cover Ajuga with colorful metallic bronze foliage. Bronze Beauty Ajuga offers spikes of bright blue flowers during the spring. Ajuga, also known as Bugleweed or Carpet Bugleweed, is a good choice for ...
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Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow'Common Name: Bugleweed
Burgundy Glow offers fantastic tricolored foliage in shades of creamy-white, rose-burgundy, and dark green. This variety of Ajuga continues to sparkle in the fall, with azure leaves turning a deep bronze while the newer growth takes on a rose tone... [ More Info ]
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Ajuga reptans 'Chocolate Chip'Common Name: Bugleweed
'Chocolate Chip Ajuga is an attractive ground cover with a mix of light and dark foliage. The purplish-burgundy foliage forms a tight mat with nice subtle shades of brown throughout. Ajuga reptans 'Chocolate Chip' has thinner, smaller and more elo... [ More Info ]
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Arabis caucasica 'Variegata'Common Name: Rock Cress
Arabis variegata is a versatile, ground-covering, evergreen perennial which bears masses of beautiful, pure white flowers held in clusters high above the foliage. Grown for its stunning leaves, Rock Cress offers splashes of creamy-white in the cen... [ More Info ]
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Campanula carpatica 'Pearl Deep Blue'Common Name: Bell Flower
Campanula 'Pearl Deep Blue' boasts deep blue bowl-shaped flowers that densely cover the compact mounds of foliage. As with many other varieties of campanula, or bell flower, 'Pearl Deep Blue' has a very long blooming period and looks great in rock... [ More Info ]
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Campanula poscharskyana 'Blue Waterfall'Common Name: Bell Flower
Campanula 'Blue Waterfall' also known as Serbian bellflower, creates a stream of lavender blue, 1-inch diameter star-shaped blossoms from late spring to early fall. 'Blue Waterfall' flows beautifully along perennial bed edges and through rock gard... [ More Info ]
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Delosperma cooperiCommon Name: Ice Plant, Hardy
Masses of hot pink flowers, drought tolerance and vigorous growth are the hallmarks of Delosperma 'Cooperi'. This perennial is native to South Africa where it is commonly found growing in dry, poor soils. In early summer, 'Cooperi' is covered with br...
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Euonymus fortunei 'Coloratus'Common Name: Wintercreeper, Purple Leaf
Euonymus Purple Leaf Wintercreeper is an excellent groundcover with deep green summer foliage that turns plum color in winter. Euonymus fortunei 'Coloratus' is perfect for large area coverage, hillsides and areas not easily accessed for care. Form... [ More Info ]
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Euonymus fortunei 'Minima'Common Name: Wintercreeper
Euonymus fortunei 'Minima' offers a spreading mat of small prostrate stems lined with leathery oval leaves that are seldom longer than a half inch. Minima Euonymus is very attractive when used as an evergreen groundcover. Shorter and slower growin... [ More Info ]
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Hedera helix 'Baltica'Common Name: Ivy, Baltic
A wonderful variety of Ivy, Baltic is a delightful evergreen groundcover that has smaller leaves then English Ivy but boasts the same deep green color and interesting white veins. A variety of Hedera that is most ideal for the northern zones for i... [ More Info ]
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Hedera helix 'Gold Child'Common Name: Ivy, English
Hedera helix, or English Ivy, ‘Gold Child’ has variegated leaves with a lobed, ivy shape and heart-shaped base. The leaf color is gray-green with irre... [ More Info ]
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Hedera helix 'Golden Ripple'Common Name: Ivy, Golden Ripple
Hedera helix 'Golden Ripple' or 'Gold Ripple' ivy boasts attractive, evergreen foliage that provides year-round interest. The yellow and green veriagated leaves almost glow! Great for erosion control on steep banks and rough slopes. Lovely in con... [ More Info ]
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Hedera helix 'Needlepoint'Common Name: Ivy, Needlepoint
Needlepoint has small pointed leaves and grows similar to english ivy, but branches better for increased thickness. May be used as a ground cover or climber. In cold regions, the foliage develops a bronze tone during the winter. It looks great in con...
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Hedera helix 'Teardrop'Common Name: Ivy, Teardrop
An award winning variety, 'Teardrop' has dark green leaves that are a unique teardrop shape. This ivy is easy to grow and was awarded Ivy of the Year for 2002. Especially lovely when planted in hanging baskets or along rock walls where it can casc... [ More Info ]
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Hedera helix 'Thorndale'Common Name: Ivy, Thorndale
Compared to Baltic Ivy, 'Thorndale' ivy boasts attractive dark green leaves that are a bit smaller, have a more prominent central lobe, and display creamy white veins. Slow growing until rooted, it later spreads at a moderate pace and makes a thic... [ More Info ]
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Lysimachia nummelaria 'Aurea'Common Name: Creeping Jenny
Lysimachia nummelaria 'Aurea', also known most commonly as Creeping Jenny, is a vigorous groundcover that can be used in the garden or container and is known for its dense mat of bright chartreuse-colored, circular-leaved foliage. Best yellow colo... [ More Info ]
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Pachysandra terminalisCommon Name: Spurge
Pachysandra terminalis, or Spurge, has oval-shaped, shiny medium-green leaves forming a dense mat making it a wonderful groundcover choice. Fragrant, spiked white flowers will appear in spring adding even more interest. Use this vigorous groundcover ...
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Phlox subulata 'Blue'Common Name: Phlox, Creeping
Phlox subulata 'Blue' is a variety of creeping phlox, or moss phlox, that boasts clear blue flowers with dark green glossy foliage and a wonderful compact growth habit. Phlox subulata is a vigorous, spreading, mat-forming, sun-loving phlox that is no...
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Phlox subulata 'Pink'Common Name: Phlox, Creeping
Phlox subulata 'Pink' is a variety of creeping phlox, or moss phlox, that boasts flashy pink flowers with dark green glossy foliage and a wonderful compact growth habit. Phlox subulata is a vigorous, spreading, mat-forming, sun-loving phlox that i... [ More Info ]
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Phlox subulata 'Red'Common Name: Phlox, Creeping
Phlox subulata 'Red' is a variety of creeping phlox, or moss phlox, that boasts raspberry red flowers with dark green glossy foliage and a wonderful compact growth habit. Phlox subulata is a vigorous, spreading, mat-forming, sun-loving phlox that is ...
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Phlox subulata 'White'Common Name: Phlox, Creeping
Phlox subulata 'White' is a variety of creeping phlox, or moss phlox, that boasts clear white flowers with dark green glossy foliage and a wonderful compact growth habit. Phlox subulata is a vigorous, spreading, mat-forming, sun-loving phlox that is ...
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Sedum 'Acre'Common Name: Gold Moss stonecrop
Delicate in appearance and yet very cold hardy, Sedum 'Acre' is a ray of sunshine in cold climates. The small, succulent, egg-shaped leaves are crowded on short stems attached to long trailing arms that root as they go. Very lovely spilling over edge...
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Sedum kamtschaticumCommon Name: Stonecrop, low
Sedum 'kamtschaticum' makes a fine dense groundcover where soils are poor and winters dry and cold. Its spoon-shaped, fleshy, dark green leaves are toothed at their tips and densely borne on low stems. In the summer, starry orange-yellow flowers a... [ More Info ]
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Sedum kamtschaticum var. floriferum 'Weihenstephaner Gold'Common Name: Stonecrop, low
'Weihenstephaner Gold' Sedum is among the most popular groundcover sedums with its covering of tiny canary yellow star-shaped flower clusters in late spring.
‘Weihenstephaner Gold’ is a low-growing stonecrop that spreads by trailing stems t... [ More Info ]
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Sedum reflexum 'Blue Spruce'Common Name: Stonecrop, low
A very popular groundcover, 'Blue Spruce' sedum is great for rock gardens and ledges with its creeping blue foliage, highlighted by clusters of bright yellow star flowers in summer. Changing with the seasons, 'Blue Spruce' stonecrop has narrow, fl... [ More Info ]
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Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'Common Name: Stonecrop, low
Angelina Sedum is a low, spreading sedum that will form a solid mat of foliage and is excellent for covering slopes or can be planted as a groundcover in sunny, dry areas. 'Angelina' stonecrop shines with brilliant golden-yellow, evergreen, needle... [ More Info ]
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Sedum sexangulare 'Sexangular'Common Name: Stonecrop, low
Sexangulare or 'Sexangular' Sedum forms a low carpet of tiny, spiraling green leaves that spread to form a thick mat of foliage. A bronzy-green color provides late season interest and tiny, yellow, star-shaped flowers appear in June. On elevated l... [ More Info ]
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Sedum spurium 'Dragon's Blood'Common Name: Stonecrop, Low
'Dragon's Blood' sedum is a fast-growing ground cover that emerges with red succulent leaves, then turns to dark green with a purplish tinge and continues into late summer in a shade of red! Bright pink, star shaped clusters of flowers are a wonde... [ More Info ]
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Sedum spurium 'Red Carpet'Common Name: Stonecrop
Sedum ‘Red Carpet’ is a low-growing, sprawling, red-leaved sedum or stonecrop (also commonly called two-row stonecrop) that is commonly grown as a ground cover. It is an evergreen plant with thick, succulent red leaves that are to... [ More Info ]
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Sedum spurium 'Tricolor'Common Name: Stonecrop, low
The brightly colored green, pink and white foliage of 'Tricolor' works beautifully as a contrasting groundcover for rock gardens and containers. Though mainly grown for its colorful leaves, sedum spurium 'Tri-color' blooms small, pink, starry flow... [ More Info ]
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Sedum, MixedMixed sedum flats are created here at Green Gate Farms using sedum favorites including 'Dragon's Blood', 'Blue Spruce', 'Tri Color' and more. Plant in a mass and create a sea of beautiful color! Drought-tolerant and very easy to gr... [ More Info ]
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Veronica liwanensis 'Liwanensis'Common Name: Speedwell
Veronica liwanensis is an extremely dwarf, slowly-spreading, low-growing speedwell which typically forms a mat of tiny, oval, glossy foliage. Small erect clusters of blue flowers appear above the foliage in late spring, covering the mat with a profu...
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Vinca minor 'Bowles'Common Name: Periwinkle
An excellent ground cover with dark green glossy foliage, vinca minor 'Bowles' variety is excellent for shady areas. In addition, 'Bowles' periwinkle, also known as Myrtle, has large purple-blue pinwheel flowers that appear late spring and continu... [ More Info ]
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