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Ground Cover Plants
Landscapers palette

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This is a list of garden plant varieties listed by Latin name and common name. Inclusion here is by plants that I am familiar with as a landscaper. It is not a complete or exhaustive list. The title "Landscapers palette" comes from the fact that these are the plants that for 95% of the time I would choose from when planning a planting scheme.

Exclusion doesn't always mean that a plant doesn't deserve a place here on merit, it may be because it's uncommon, difficult to get hold of, that I haven't yet got around to including it yet - or of course that it doesn't deserve a place here on merit.

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unmarked links go to somewhere to buy that plant online

Ground Cover Plants

Name habit colour difficult scent seasons height spread flower everg shd sshd
Ajuga - Bugle - Burgundy Glow spreading green, purple ap-aut 6" 2-3ft blue Y Y
Arabis alpina snowcap spreading white     sp-all 6" 2ft white Y    
Aubretia purple cascade spreading purple     sp-all 6" 2ft purple Y    
Campanula carpatica blue or white spreading white / blue clay   sp-aut 1ft 2ft white
blue
  Y Y
Cotoneaster horizontalis spreading, wall shrub red berries in aut     sp-aut 3ft 5ft white      
Geranium macorrhizum White-ness   spreading white to purple, blue any, dry, water- logged   sp-aut 2ft 2ft white
blue
pink
purple
  Y Y
Hebe pinguifolia pagei - shrubby veronica spreading, shrub   not exposed   all 1ft 3ft white Y Y Y
Juniperus squamata, blue carpet - flaky juniper spreading blue, green lvs dry   all 3ft 6ft   Y    
Juniperus davurica spreading yell, green dry   all 2ft 6ft   Y    
Name habit colour difficult scent seasons height spread flower everg shd sshd
Juniperus communis repanda spreading silvery - green dry   all 2ft 6ft   Y   Y
Lamium maculatum | Lamium Golden Anniversary spreading variegated     sp-aut 6" 3ft pink
white
  Y Y
Saxifraga umbrosa - London pride spreading pink any   all - sum 1ft 2ft pink Y Y Y
Sedum spathulifolium purpureum spreading purple variegated sun, exposed   all 6" 2ft yellow Y    
Stachys byzantina - lambs ears spreading grey green sun   all - sum 6" 2ft pink Y    
Thymus - creeping thyme spreading   sun Y all -sum 6" 2ft pink Y    
Vinca minor or major spreading white, green any, dry   all 1.5ft indefinite blue Y Y Y
Name habit colour difficult scent seasons height spread flower everg shd sshd

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