Re: Understory "groundcover"
- Subject: Re: [SG] Understory "groundcover"
- From: D* T*
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:04:52 -0000
That's the problem with groundcovers: to do a good job, they usually border
on invasive.
My standard is how easy they are to get rid of when they step over the line.
Ajuga is a rampant thang, but it's easy as heck to pull up.
I have a lovely groundcover called Chrysogonum virginianum 'Golden Star'
(also called 'Green and Gold'). Got lots of questions about it at the
Garden Walk this summer. Nice bright green oval leaves, somewhat fuzzy, and
pretty 3/4" yellow 4-petal flowers. Plants bloom all spring/summer and are
good in part-sun to part-shade. I will say, however, that they are as
vigorous as Ajuga, yet just as easy to yank up. About 6" tall. (Hard to
believe, but lots of people never saw Ajuga before and were interested in
that too.)
I've wanted to get some of that Cornus groundcover for quite a while, C.
canadensis ("Bunchberry"). It's called a "subshrub," gets flowers, then
berries. Anyone have experience with that?
Diann
>From: Karen Butner <abtrlife@EARTHLINK.NET>
>Reply-To: PRIMROSES <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
>To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>Subject: [SG] Understory "groundcover"
>Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:50:04 -0400
>
>Does anyone have suggestions for a groundcover or short, somewhat
>spreading plant that would be good to fill in under taller plants such
>as hostas that are more upright than "droopy" or shrubs. I don't want
>Ajuga - just got rid of a bunch of it. It doesn't really need to be a
>groundcover unless it's one that doesn't go as crazy as Ajuga or the too
>tall Galium odoratum (Sweet Woodruff) which I also have lots of. I'm
>looking for something 6" tall or less.
>
>TIA
>Karen
>z5a, north central OH
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