Top 10 Plants for Ground Cover
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1 – Rosa Snow Carpet ‘Maccarpe’
Low growing shrub with elegant white flowers
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2 – Euonymous fortunei ‘Gold Spot’
Deciduous shrub with leaves turning from dark to brilliant red and orange
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3 – HLesser Periwinkle (Vinca minor ‘Atropurpurea’)
Dark plum flowers on a mat forming shrub
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4 – Cotoneaster horizontalis
Tiny pink white flowers in the summer and bright red berries in the autumn
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5 – Ivy
Leaf colour can vary from gold to purple with many variegated varieties also available
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6 – Juniperus procumbens
Mat forming conifer with aromatic leaves
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7 – Pachysandra terminalis
Freely spreading, evergreen foliage and spikes of small white flowers in early summer
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8 – Ceanothus thyrsiflorus
Low and spreading evergreen with clusters of tiny blue flowers in late spring
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9 – Heathers
Most heather provide great cover. Available as early or late flowering and in a variety of colours
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10 – Hebe
Many hebes are low growing. Wide variety of leaf and flower colour available
