Maintaining ground covers

A ground cover plant is typically a plant that grows not much higher than 40cm in height. It can certainly help reduce the amounts of weeds you have in your garden as they can provide a thick ground cover, which can also provides a living mulch for your garden. That has to be a great defence over dry summer months.

Here at Fabflora we have a number of ground cover plants, with certainly some favourites we would recommend you try.

Baby tears have become a very popular ground cover plant, that can also can be successfully planted in pots. Just remember they do like a misty spray.

A gorgeous ground cover for part shade would have to be the liriope. A particular favourite is the white-flowering variety as it is a good complement to other plants. This plant is a tough evergreen that also makes a great edging plant for pathways and driveways. It is drought tolerant and blooms in summer with either purple or white flowers.

The coprosmas are one of our hardiest native ground covers. The many varieties include those that will scramble over banks and difficult to reach areas, along with those more suitable for home gardens.

Check out our range of ground cover plants in our shop.