Here is a list of great Mid-Atlantic native ground covers. These plants provide wildlife benefits while making your garden greener.
FNPS is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and restoration of the native plants and native plant communities of Florida.
Keystone Species - what are they, what to get, and how to use them
This native California shrub grows low to the ground, never exceeding 2 feet, and can reach 6 to 8 feet wide and draping over rocks or walls. It has an extended bloom with whorls of lavender-blue flowers on 1 foot long spikes from mid-spring into early summer, rising above the tomentose gray-green leaves. Plant in full sun and water sparingly.
Popular as mown turfgrass, Festuca rubra (Red Fescue) is a cool-season grass forming tufts of arching, narrow, dark green blades. One of the most shade tolerant lawn grasses, it tolerates many habitats, and climates and is not fussy about soils. It makes a lovely lush green grass for shady spots where most turfgrasses will not grow.
Grindelia camporum "Great Valley Gumweed"
Now, about mid-summer, is the time we anticipate the inevitable dog days to come as we watch our pincushion fields go barren and eagerly w...
Eucalyptus caesia subsp. magna (Silver Princess)
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