The Complete Garden

A landscape architect's working manual of 1921: not how to grow a plant but where to put it — the plant lists, the groupings, the seasons of bloom, and the reasons behind a designed garden.

Plants for Ground Cover

5 pages in this part of The Complete Garden.

Plants for Ground Cover

GROUND-COVER plants are distinctly valuable for a use covered by the literal interpretation of the word. The conditions which they overcome…

Plants for Ground Cover (Santolina chamaecyparissus)

Santolina chamaecyparissus Lavender Cotton Sedum album White Stonecrop Sedum spurium Spreading Stonecrop Sedum stoloniferum Purple…

Plants for Ground Cover: Aspidium

Asplenium ebeneum Ebony Spleenwort Asplenium trichomanes Maidenhair Spleenwort Aspidium acrostichoides Christmas Fern Aspidium marginale…

Plants for Ground Cover: Rubus

Ampelopsis aconitifolia Cut-leaved Vitis Ampelopsis heterophylla Asiatic Creeper Ampelopsis quinquefolia Virginia Creeper Bignonia radicans…

Plants for Ground Cover: Cress

Arabis albida Rock Cress Arabis alpina Alpine Rock Cress Armeria maritima Sea Thrift Asperula odorata (in shade) Sweet Woodruff Aubrietia…

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