This is the best video I’ve seen on ground covers. Showing each one, how it thrives & placement was so very helpful. Thank you. It was an excellent video. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍
I live in Indiana and creeping jenny us a gentle ground cover, she's easy to remove and put somewhere else. She is my favorite but creeping Charlie tries to bully her.
This is a beautiful video. I love that you enjoy so many different types of ground covers. I think it really makes a yard eye candy. Layered gardens are so intricate and interesting. I am zone 6A and I have discovered woolly thyme, black’s platt, sedum angelina, creeping thyme (though mine is a darker shade of green than yours), and sempervivums (hen and chicks) as the most amazing ground covers. I weirdly found sedum sarmentosum in the actual forest and transplanted a handful to my yard to see what would happen. It’s so happy there!
I can't even tolerate looking at ivy or holly because they were so invasive and difficult both to "manage" or to "dig out completely" in the area I used to live in (mid coastal Calif.). Just discovered your podcast and am looking forward to seeing them all. I especially like the quality of your voice and that you type the name of plants you are featuring.
Absolutely, in the Pacific Northwest the place for English ivy is "nowhere" in my opinion. If you want it, just wait and it will creep into your yard from somewhere 😂
@@susanlowell4759 Yes! I had nightmares from ivy and wintercreeper smothering the trees and bushes in the garden of a newly purchased house. They seriously looked like snakes, they were so huge. 😳 Once I’d hacked it all out I never wanted to see them again. Some really lovely options here. 💗
What an inspiring video. You have quite a selection of groundcovers and they all look so healthy and beautifully placed with other plants. It looks very natural. Love it!
Glad TH-cam recommended this video! I love all your garden and ground covers! Thank you for sharing all the names and great info! My favorites are Creeping Thyme and Lamium purple dragon, but again they are all pretty! I need to get some for my garden! Thanks for the inspiration!
Great video. I'm in zone 6b and Creeping Jenny went from a flower to garden. I left it because I liked the look. But it has even crossed a 4' brick walkway to get to another bed. But with climate change anything that offers the soil, stood weeds and holds moisture is Good.😊
Great showcase thank you. I've been looking at options to cover some concrete blocks the builder used to anchor a large tree in my back yard. I might give some of these a shot.
I really appreciate you emphasizing the aggressiveness of some of these ground covers. It's a shame how many content creators (including blogs and editorials) that do not.
Yes, we should think to add that with plants too. Anything can become aggressive if given the right conditions...My bee balm is a good example but I love it even though I spend hours pulling it out and relocating it each spring lol.
Thanks for this video, I just put in a paver walkway and now need ground covers to fill in between pavers. Love your bunny shed (he/she is living large). great idea.
I have creeping thyme in zone 6b Boston. I love it! When I moved into my house ten yrs ago the side of my garage was just weeds, I couldn't plant anything because of tree roots from neighbors yard. I got 50 plugs of thyme and was able to plant it. It covered the whole area within the first season. I dug up pieces and put in the front of my house around an ornamental tree, i put a big rock where I wanted it to stop. I just trim as it goes over the rock. Over time there are two volunteer rose of Sharon's and a milkweed growing in the the thyme on the side of the garage(the tree roots are breaking down because the neighbors cut the trees so I can dig now) they all are thriving. It's a fast spreader but not difficult to pull. I have ajuga too that's not a problem either. Thanks for showing all these grounds covers because I need more, so sick of weeding in some of beds. The bees and butterflies love the thyme.
Hello from Zone 9, Northern Cali. I miss North Carolina, everything grows well there. Your place is beautiful, very interesting, green, and I'll watch this more than ten times. Thank you for sharing.
I have some Hardy Plumbago (Ceratostigma Plumbaginoides). It was already here before we moved in. I thought it was a weed until one day I saw some beautiful cobalt blue flowers and decided to let it stay. Only just figured out what it was a year or two ago. For me it is a slow spreader, behaves pretty well, doesn't seem to choke others out. I'm in zone 8b Texas.
I enjoyed the video. One thing I would note is that Ivy can produce berries. Those berries contain seed. birds can eat those berries and spread them around. So controlling Ivy is not merely a matter of controlling the growth of the plant.
Thank you for sharing! Agreed but that goes for every plant that produces seeds including the ones in your lawn. It would be impossible to control every plant that way and I choose not to. My ivy is a haven for chipmunks, snakes, spiders and thousands of insects. I refuse to vilify it like so many others. It does no damage to my trees and I control it going into the canopy which is quite easy. It’s spread in the wild happened before I was born.
Yeah and that’s pretty much for every plant. I have no desire to control it if a bird wants to eat it. That’s nature…humans spend too much time controlling nature. 🙏I love ivy, it gives harbor to sooo many insects, chipmunks, etc. so I won’t be joining the haters club because it’s successful.
Your video was great, it was so informative. I This is the best video I’ve watched yet. learned so much about ground cover. Your garden is so lovely. thank you for sharing it and your knowledge of ground covers. 💕
In my area of Northern New Jersey trees up here can become huge. Towns such as Montclair is known for it's massive trees such as oaks etc. & further north such as West Milford & Oakridge have huge trees as well.
So jealous! I went to college in north Jersey, Hackettstown (Centenary when it was an all girls school lol) and I remember those big trees. Our sandy soil can’t support them but occasionally you do see a big beautiful one.
Thanks for the great informational video. It really helps to see how and where these various ground covers grow👍🏻 I especially liked the creeping thyme and blue star creeper.
Very detailed & amazing video on groundcovers - thanks so much - just love your honesty - I too have spent so much money on mulch & now it will be groundcovers ..& stone..
Hon, I've watched a million videos on ground covers. I live in Chicago but I'm moving back to SC Coast. I'm a CEO but live gardening. It was my Grandmamas passion and I guess I got her gift. Anyway, since living here I've got into gardening heavily. FINALLY moving back to all warm weather. Looking for some good groundcovers for a 3 acre yard. With a big farm pond. Sorry all my videos are comedy. ANYWAY... THIS video has been the best ground cover video I've watched. I Also love Ajuga. I have the different varieties. I'm takin them all to SC. YOUR GARDEN IS BEAUTIFUL I'm also running a ground cover test... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO ... Take Care God Bless BTW...My creepin jenny starved out some Dahlias last year. But it's one of my favorite ans even comes back after Chicago winters. Rockford, IL exactly
Thanks for sharing your story! We love to here about other gardener’s experiences. The new property sounds awesome. We’ve heard some stories about Jenny getting out of hand but haven’t experienced it yet although stay tuned, each year she gets braver.
This is such a fabulous video! I love ground covers and you have a beautiful assortment...I have several of the ones you showcased. And I love how you have created levels in the garden so the ground covers can spill over....so romantic!
Great video! I've noticed the same thing with Sedum and water - if you have good drainage it will use water and grow lushly. Soggy soil in winter can be harmful but honestly, some of the varieties like 'Angelina' seem to handle that also.
I love the way you use rock in your landscaping. Great video. My two favorite ground covers for sun are ice plant Fire Spinner and woolly thyme. Pink Chintz thyme, for me, looks too ratty after it blooms in the spring, and the weeds and grass take it over. Dragon's blood sedum is another one of my favorite ground covers as well. I battle with bind weed, and my ice plant and Dragon's blood sedum have solved the problem in one area of my back yard. Another one of my favorite ground covers is Partridge Feather. It grows in such a tidy clump, and the leaves are so adorable.
Thank you for sharing all of this information Marilyn! It's so helpful to hear what works for you. Do you mind sharing your Zone? So sorry about the bindweed, it's the worst!
I just love your garden/yard! So beautiful, interesting and natural. I found that my house has some of these that I have taken advantage of especially the little blue star plant, and the sedum. I have a disdain for the little violet rhizomes that I cannot keep out of my vegetable garden in zone 7b, but they are sweet and woodland looking. They are overtaking my backyard though. I think ground covered are my mom’s answer to not being able to take care of her flower garden. It gets overgrown with weeds and trees every summer and she gets so depressed about it.
This is such a pretty garden! I love your use of rocks and paver stones and ground covers. I want exactly this look. Im not even sure i can do ground covers. Ill go to a nursery tomorrow and try the seedum. I got alot of varigated ivy last yr and isnt growing very fast but then u said it sleeps then creeps and ? Grows faster the 3rd yr. So it is starting to grow more now. Also have some im training up the trees thats been there..a gardener came along snd ripped it off the tree so he could climb up!!!😢 anyway this is one of the most pleasing to the eye garden ive seen so far!
Creeping jenny or moneywort will go everywhere. If unchecked it ends up in your grass, etc. I do use it in planters and hanging baskets as a fill in vine. And it will naturalize any area you put it in.
It has been my experience that creeping jenny is a fussy plant. It's either really happy (like in my woodland garden and frog pond) or it's miserable and sits in one spot like a sloth (my front round bed lol). My daughter planted 2 entire flats of it in a shady, moist area (zone 7) in her back yard for erosion control. It should of loved those conditions. Nope, most of it died and what is still alive has been sitting in one spot looking sad. You can never tell. Plants like what they like, and what grows "anywhere" for one gardener is a difficult to grow plant for another.
@@planttasticcookinggardenin1561 I was gifted two handfuls of it 30 years ago and it is now like a weed everywhere on my two acre property. It's pretty and useful, though in many instances. Loved your video, thank you.
@@terrigodfrey8260 It sounds exactly like the Vinca vine I was gifted about 15 years ago lol. It LOVES my property too much! I won't lie, it is very pretty when it blooms and the variegation is also nice but my husband and I pull it out by the handful. Gardening is full of surprises!!
I'm moving back to the Myrtle Beach area. That's where I grew up and family still there. But I wasn't in the garden as much them. I started up here. I love that you have your Thugs... I was Rollin. I just got Sedums this year. I got the flat with tons of it. I'm trying it all. One I also love is called ground cover, but its taller. Lambs ear I've found it to be a great color variation. Thanks again...
I absolutely love lamb’s ear too but it tends to get fungal in our abundant garden and needs more airflow than we can give it. I agree! Try it all! Deal with the thugs later lol
You have a beautiful garden by the way! Nice video about ground cover plants. Thank you! Sedums like water as long as the drainage of the soil is good. If they get watered but the water stays in the soil it would be bad for the sedum's roots and they would rot.
Thank you so much. I need fast spreading ground covers for shade and full sun!! I need to block out the weeds in a 1 acre area. Ugg. So much work so I need some stabilizing ideas that work fast so we can landscape and stop pulling weeds all summer. I’m in zone 5a Illinois
Very nice video. Love your ground covers. I’m just trying a few out. I have a large area with what I believe is creeping Myrtle. It’s a nightmare, grows over everything, bushes, pathway and is spreading fast. It came with the house. I’m now mowing over it but that probably won’t kill it.
Our video on poison ivy worked to irradicate it by suffocating it with landscape fabric. It only took a days work for a 20 x 40 foot garden area with lots of plants.
Super helpful, thanks! I’m getting rid of all of the sod in my backyard (zone 5b but I think we’ve been reclassified as 6a now). I’m deciding between a moss or a creeping thyme (needs to be a steppable). I also want something very fast growing and dense enough to suppresses weeds so sounds like thyme is better. I love Angelina sedum, ajuga and Veronica speedwell but I want something that can be walked on. Maybe I can plant some little patches here and there for visual texture, though. Love how yours look like a multi-coloured tapestry or patchwork quilt! Creeping phlox isn’t taking for me though, sadly (I have a ton planted in different garden beds as edging ground cover and most of it’s dying :-(
Glad it was helpful! We've been slowing removing sod from our property for over 20 years now. It's too high maintenance and requires too many chemicals to look good. Best of luck to you!
Sorry for some reason youtube cut off half of your comment. I walk on my low growing ajuga all of the time and it doesn't bother it at all. If you find the really mat-forming ones, they take high foot traffic. I've heard that other people have a tough time getting creeping phlox to grow. I find that it has to have excellent drainage or it won't budge. It's also not a really competitive plant.
This is the best video I’ve seen on ground covers. Showing each one, how it thrives & placement was so very helpful. Thank you. It was an excellent video.
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Totally agree! And the little blurbs about each zone, where it’s highly invasive, etc. awesome video!!
Honestly one of the best ground cover videos I've watched. Not just informative, but really well paced, too.
I can’t believe one person has such a huge variety of ground covers! Beautiful grounds.
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Best video on ground covers ever… I’m a gardening video addict, so I know a good one when I see one.
I live in Indiana and creeping jenny us a gentle ground cover, she's easy to remove and put somewhere else. She is my favorite but creeping Charlie tries to bully her.
Jenny is so bright and sunny!🙏 Glad she behaves for you!!
This really is the best ground cover video I have ever seen!
very informative video, thank you for adding names and zones for the plants, I've learned so much from this video.
Thank you so much! Glad it was helpful.
This is a beautiful video. I love that you enjoy so many different types of ground covers. I think it really makes a yard eye candy. Layered gardens are so intricate and interesting. I am zone 6A and I have discovered woolly thyme, black’s platt, sedum angelina, creeping thyme (though mine is a darker shade of green than yours), and sempervivums (hen and chicks) as the most amazing ground covers. I weirdly found sedum sarmentosum in the actual forest and transplanted a handful to my yard to see what would happen. It’s so happy there!
I can't even tolerate looking at ivy or holly because they were so invasive and difficult both to "manage" or to "dig out completely" in the area I used to live in (mid coastal Calif.). Just discovered your podcast and am looking forward to seeing them all. I especially like the quality of your voice and that you type the name of plants you are featuring.
Yes, I have a few plants like that myself. It’s very easy to control in sandy soil🙏
Absolutely, in the Pacific Northwest the place for English ivy is "nowhere" in my opinion. If you want it, just wait and it will creep into your yard from somewhere 😂
@@susanlowell4759 Yes! I had nightmares from ivy and wintercreeper smothering the trees and bushes in the garden of a newly purchased house. They seriously looked like snakes, they were so huge. 😳 Once I’d hacked it all out I never wanted to see them again. Some really lovely options here. 💗
What an inspiring video. You have quite a selection of groundcovers and they all look so healthy and beautifully placed with other plants. It looks very natural. Love it!
Thank you Emma!
Thank you, this was very informative and exactly what was on mind. You gave me some ideas for plants I hadn’t considered before.
I just finished watching your video and wow. I enjoyed watching so much I did not want it to end. Thank u so much for sharing. 👍🏾
Loved this video , one of the very BEST ! VERY HELPFUL ! TFS
I have several problem areas and this video has been extremely helpful! Thank you!
Best ground cover video congratulations
Thank you!
Glad TH-cam recommended this video! I love all your garden and ground covers! Thank you for sharing all the names and great info! My favorites are Creeping Thyme and Lamium purple dragon, but again they are all pretty! I need to get some for my garden! Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks so much for your comment and I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
This is probably one of the best ground cover videos hear your experience and getting to see such a variety so helpful thank you.
Great video. I'm in zone 6b and Creeping Jenny went from a flower to garden. I left it because I liked the look. But it has even crossed a 4' brick walkway to get to another bed.
But with climate change anything that offers the soil, stood weeds and holds moisture is Good.😊
Lovely than you for the helpful info and for sharing your wonderful years of experience.
Would you please leave the captions on the screen a little longer? I can't read that fast!
I'm so sorry about that. I'm very new to video editing and am still working on things. Thanks for your patience!
Thanks for this video. Very informative. Beautiful garden.
LOVING that you called the dead nettle a thug. You are correct on that, my friend! 😂❤ Thank you for this lovely video! Your gardens are gorgeous!
What an excellent video! Thank you for the thorough details of each ground covering.
What a beautiful garden. thank you Mx
Each and every part of your garden is just gorgeous beyond words ...
Great showcase thank you. I've been looking at options to cover some concrete blocks the builder used to anchor a large tree in my back yard. I might give some of these a shot.
What a GREAT video!! I searched all through youtube for one on ground covers. I ended up loving yours the very BEST!!
Wow, thank you Kristie! So glad you liked it!
I really appreciate you emphasizing the aggressiveness of some of these ground covers. It's a shame how many content creators (including blogs and editorials) that do not.
Yes, we should think to add that with plants too. Anything can become aggressive if given the right conditions...My bee balm is a good example but I love it even though I spend hours pulling it out and relocating it each spring lol.
I like the front , it looks beautiful the way it is
Ground covers, sound like something thhat will for my yard
Thank you so much! I am an inexperienced but very interested gardener! I found this video very helpful and took lots of notes.
Wow! What an amazing garden you have! Thank you for sharing so much valuable information!
Thank you so much!
Thanks for this video, I just put in a paver walkway and now need ground covers to fill in between pavers. Love your bunny shed (he/she is living large). great idea.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much, she is a sweetheart!
That was SO HELPFUL! Thank you for sharing! So beautiful! I am excited to plant more ground covers.
We are so glad it was helpful, thank you so much!
I've never seen a video on groundcovers. I love this! Thank you!
So glad you liked this video, thank you so much!
I have creeping thyme in zone 6b Boston. I love it! When I moved into my house ten yrs ago the side of my garage was just weeds, I couldn't plant anything because of tree roots from neighbors yard. I got 50 plugs of thyme and was able to plant it. It covered the whole area within the first season. I dug up pieces and put in the front of my house around an ornamental tree, i put a big rock where I wanted it to stop. I just trim as it goes over the rock. Over time there are two volunteer rose of Sharon's and a milkweed growing in the the thyme on the side of the garage(the tree roots are breaking down because the neighbors cut the trees so I can dig now) they all are thriving. It's a fast spreader but not difficult to pull. I have ajuga too that's not a problem either. Thanks for showing all these grounds covers because I need more, so sick of weeding in some of beds. The bees and butterflies love the thyme.
Thanks so much for sharing your Zone and experience with ground covers! I put newspaper on top of my weeds and then mulch in my beds, so quick lol.
Hello from Zone 9, Northern Cali. I miss North Carolina, everything grows well there. Your place is beautiful, very interesting, green, and I'll watch this more than ten times. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much! I would miss Jersey if we moved too.
OMG..what a gorgeous yard.
Thanks so much!!
What state are you in? I'm in Texas and everything burns up here except the hardiest plants.
I have some Hardy Plumbago (Ceratostigma Plumbaginoides). It was already here before we moved in. I thought it was a weed until one day I saw some beautiful cobalt blue flowers and decided to let it stay. Only just figured out what it was a year or two ago. For me it is a slow spreader, behaves pretty well, doesn't seem to choke others out. I'm in zone 8b Texas.
Thank you for your ground cover suggestion and zone information, it is really appreciated! I love when gardeners share their experiences.
Good to know. (Also 8b Texas)
Great video! I am looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Awesome! Thank you!
I enjoyed the video. One thing I would note is that Ivy can produce berries. Those berries contain seed. birds can eat those berries and spread them around. So controlling Ivy is not merely a matter of controlling the growth of the plant.
Thank you for sharing! Agreed but that goes for every plant that produces seeds including the ones in your lawn. It would be impossible to control every plant that way and I choose not to. My ivy is a haven for chipmunks, snakes, spiders and thousands of insects. I refuse to vilify it like so many others. It does no damage to my trees and I control it going into the canopy which is quite easy. It’s spread in the wild happened before I was born.
Yeah and that’s pretty much for every plant. I have no desire to control it if a bird wants to eat it. That’s nature…humans spend too much time controlling nature. 🙏I love ivy, it gives harbor to sooo many insects, chipmunks, etc. so I won’t be joining the haters club because it’s successful.
Gorgeous ground covers. Gorgeous garden!
(Just to note- freesias and violas are also pet friendly that also do fine in shade in place of impatiens.)
Thanks for the suggestions and the lovely comment about the garden!
Your video was great, it was so informative. I This is the best video I’ve watched yet. learned so much about ground cover. Your garden is so lovely. thank you for sharing it and your knowledge of ground covers. 💕
In my area of Northern New Jersey trees up here can become huge. Towns such as Montclair is known for it's massive trees such as oaks etc. & further north such as West Milford & Oakridge have huge trees as well.
So jealous! I went to college in north Jersey, Hackettstown (Centenary when it was an all girls school lol) and I remember those big trees. Our sandy soil can’t support them but occasionally you do see a big beautiful one.
Great to see a 6B gardener! Great video! Wonderful job
Thanks so much Melanie, it's always good to have another gardening friend!!
Very helpful! Love your ground covers. Thank you!😃
Thanks for the great informational video. It really helps to see how and where these various ground covers grow👍🏻 I especially liked the creeping thyme and blue star creeper.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for stopping by!
Your video is the best I have seen! 🤩 Thank you! 😊
Thank you, that's so nice!
Love your yard and all the varieties with vibrant colors. Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome! Thank you for visiting us Anne! : )
Very detailed & amazing video on groundcovers - thanks so much - just love your honesty - I too have spent so much money on mulch & now it will be groundcovers ..& stone..
This is The Best video on ground overs I've ever seen! Thank you!
Oh that's wonderful! Thank you!!
Thank you for this informative and helpful video. You have given me so many ideas.
Really enjoyed your video. I live in Pa so it’s nice to know what worked for you will work for me. Can’t wait to try some of these out.
Beautiful garden! I’m hoping I can cultivate mine just as beautifully. Thank you so much!!
You can do it! 🙏
I love your beautiful garden. It’s very peaceful.
Thank you so much 😊
Beautiful garden. I am just planning mine. Thanks for all the info.
Hon, I've watched a million videos on ground covers. I live in Chicago but I'm moving back to SC Coast. I'm a CEO but live gardening. It was my Grandmamas passion and I guess I got her gift. Anyway, since living here I've got into gardening heavily. FINALLY moving back to all warm weather. Looking for some good groundcovers for a 3 acre yard. With a big farm pond. Sorry all my videos are comedy.
ANYWAY... THIS video has been the best ground cover video I've watched.
I Also love Ajuga. I have the different varieties. I'm takin them all to SC.
YOUR GARDEN IS BEAUTIFUL
I'm also running a ground cover test...
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO ... Take Care God Bless
BTW...My creepin jenny starved out some Dahlias last year. But it's one of my favorite ans even comes back after Chicago winters. Rockford, IL exactly
Thanks for sharing your story! We love to here about other gardener’s experiences. The new property sounds awesome. We’ve heard some stories about Jenny getting out of hand but haven’t experienced it yet although stay tuned, each year she gets braver.
So beautiful and the rock area in front of the bunny house is so angelic and looks great
Thanks so much!!
This is such a fabulous video! I love ground covers and you have a beautiful assortment...I have several of the ones you showcased. And I love how you have created levels in the garden so the ground covers can spill over....so romantic!
Thank you so much for your kind comments and we are glad you love it as much as we do!
Your garden is stunning! Thanks for the inspiration!
You are so welcome! 🙏
Great video! I've noticed the same thing with Sedum and water - if you have good drainage it will use water and grow lushly. Soggy soil in winter can be harmful but honestly, some of the varieties like 'Angelina' seem to handle that also.
Yes exactly 👍🙏
Beautiful video thanks. The ivy is a big no-no in new Zealand. Our warm climates makes it very invasive.
Thank you! Yes some plants just can’t be grown in regions where they are too successful.
I love the way you use rock in your landscaping. Great video. My two favorite ground covers for sun are ice plant Fire Spinner and woolly thyme. Pink Chintz thyme, for me, looks too ratty after it blooms in the spring, and the weeds and grass take it over. Dragon's blood sedum is another one of my favorite ground covers as well. I battle with bind weed, and my ice plant and Dragon's blood sedum have solved the problem in one area of my back yard. Another one of my favorite ground covers is Partridge Feather. It grows in such a tidy clump, and the leaves are so adorable.
Thank you for sharing all of this information Marilyn! It's so helpful to hear what works for you. Do you mind sharing your Zone? So sorry about the bindweed, it's the worst!
Loved this 👍 I have a new garden bed along my sidewalk and I can’t wait to try some of these.
Great video. Thank you. This is one I will watch again.
Awesome, thank you!
What an adorable home for the bunnies 😊
Thanks Nima!! : )
This is a wonderful and extremely helpful video. Your garden is beautiful. The dedication truly shows. Thank you for the inspiration.
Thank you so much!!
I just love your garden/yard! So beautiful, interesting and natural. I found that my house has some of these that I have taken advantage of especially the little blue star plant, and the sedum. I have a disdain for the little violet rhizomes that I cannot keep out of my vegetable garden in zone 7b, but they are sweet and woodland looking. They are overtaking my backyard though. I think ground covered are my mom’s answer to not being able to take care of her flower garden. It gets overgrown with weeds and trees every summer and she gets so depressed about it.
Aww tell her to enjoy those weeds! They are plants also and in need of a home 🏠
What a stunning garden! Thank you for the guided tour xx
So nice of you, thank you for joining us!!
This is such a pretty garden! I love your use of rocks and paver stones and ground covers. I want exactly this look. Im not even sure i can do ground covers. Ill go to a nursery tomorrow and try the seedum. I got alot of varigated ivy last yr and isnt growing very fast but then u said it sleeps then creeps and ? Grows faster the 3rd yr. So it is starting to grow more now. Also have some im training up the trees thats been there..a gardener came along snd ripped it off the tree so he could climb up!!!😢 anyway this is one of the most pleasing to the eye garden ive seen so far!
Such a good and informative video! Best one on ground covers I’ve seen to date.
Wow, thanks!
Beautiful and informative presentation. Thank you. Very helpful.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you!
Congratulations, very useful information and nice presentation,
Creeping jenny or moneywort will go everywhere. If unchecked it ends up in your grass, etc. I do use it in planters and hanging baskets as a fill in vine. And it will naturalize any area you put it in.
It has been my experience that creeping jenny is a fussy plant. It's either really happy (like in my woodland garden and frog pond) or it's miserable and sits in one spot like a sloth (my front round bed lol). My daughter planted 2 entire flats of it in a shady, moist area (zone 7) in her back yard for erosion control. It should of loved those conditions. Nope, most of it died and what is still alive has been sitting in one spot looking sad. You can never tell. Plants like what they like, and what grows "anywhere" for one gardener is a difficult to grow plant for another.
@@planttasticcookinggardenin1561 I was gifted two handfuls of it 30 years ago and it is now like a weed everywhere on my two acre property. It's pretty and useful, though in many instances. Loved your video, thank you.
@@terrigodfrey8260 It sounds exactly like the Vinca vine I was gifted about 15 years ago lol. It LOVES my property too much! I won't lie, it is very pretty when it blooms and the variegation is also nice but my husband and I pull it out by the handful. Gardening is full of surprises!!
Love this video def added to my gardening folder to refer back to all you need to know about ground covers.
Yay! Thank you!!
I'm moving back to the Myrtle Beach area. That's where I grew up and family still there. But I wasn't in the garden as much them. I started up here.
I love that you have your Thugs... I was Rollin.
I just got Sedums this year. I got the flat with tons of it. I'm trying it all.
One I also love is called ground cover, but its taller. Lambs ear I've found it to be a great color variation. Thanks again...
I absolutely love lamb’s ear too but it tends to get fungal in our abundant garden and needs more airflow than we can give it. I agree! Try it all! Deal with the thugs later lol
That was an excellent video very informative.
Thank you for sharing. Very informative. 👍🏻
Thank you soooooo much for doing this video. Very comprehensive with options and pros and cons. Your gardens are beautiful and inspiring. ❤️
You are so welcome! Thank you for visiting!!
That's nice plants which I like so much, thanks
Thank you!!
You have a beautiful garden by the way! Nice video about ground cover plants. Thank you!
Sedums like water as long as the drainage of the soil is good. If they get watered but the water stays in the soil it would be bad for the sedum's roots and they would rot.
Yes, sedums shouldn’t be planted where there is poor drainage. 🙏
I love your garden!!!
Thank you so much!!
Great video! So very helpful. I’m trying to reduce the amount of mulch I use every year.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks 🙏
Thank you so much. I need fast spreading ground covers for shade and full sun!!
I need to block out the weeds in a 1 acre area. Ugg. So much work so I need some stabilizing ideas that work fast so we can landscape and stop pulling weeds all summer. I’m in zone 5a Illinois
Best of luck to you🙏
Love all of your ground covers. And your garden is very nice.
Thank you!!
Very nice video. Love your ground covers. I’m just trying a few out. I have a large area with what I believe is creeping Myrtle. It’s a nightmare, grows over everything, bushes, pathway and is spreading fast. It came with the house. I’m now mowing over it but that probably won’t kill it.
Our video on poison ivy worked to irradicate it by suffocating it with landscape fabric. It only took a days work for a 20 x 40 foot garden area with lots of plants.
Love your mix of greens and textures.
Thank you Simone!
What a beautiful yard! Very helpful on choosing the right ground cover.
Your garden is charming
Thank you so much : )!!
Awesome vid 👍🏾
Super helpful, thanks! I’m getting rid of all of the sod in my backyard (zone 5b but I think we’ve been reclassified as 6a now).
I’m deciding between a moss or a creeping thyme (needs to be a steppable). I also want something very fast growing and dense enough to suppresses weeds so sounds like thyme is better.
I love Angelina sedum, ajuga and Veronica speedwell but I want something that can be walked on. Maybe I can plant some little patches here and there for visual texture, though. Love how yours look like a multi-coloured tapestry or patchwork quilt!
Creeping phlox isn’t taking for me though, sadly (I have a ton planted in different garden beds as edging ground cover and most of it’s dying :-(
Glad it was helpful! We've been slowing removing sod from our property for over 20 years now. It's too high maintenance and requires too many chemicals to look good. Best of luck to you!
Sorry for some reason youtube cut off half of your comment. I walk on my low growing ajuga all of the time and it doesn't bother it at all. If you find the really mat-forming ones, they take high foot traffic. I've heard that other people have a tough time getting creeping phlox to grow. I find that it has to have excellent drainage or it won't budge. It's also not a really competitive plant.
@@planttasticcookinggardenin1561 good to know! I’ll take another look at Ajuga...
Nice and calm show. I wish you would have stated sun, shade, moist, or dry. But, all in all, I enjoyed your conversation.
Super helpful thanks! NJ here to
Beautiful garden 💕
Thank you so much for the information, your areas are beautiful 😍.
You are so welcome! Thanks for stopping by : )
Thank you. Now I have an idea of which grown cover I could buy
Most welcome 😊 Thanks for stopping by!
i wish blue star creeper grew in my zone seems like just what im looking for to put between my flagstones
Great video! Thank you for the info on ground covers ❤
So informative!!! Beautiful.
Beautiful 💚💚💚💚
Thank you!!
Yay yay yay finally a video that shows ground cover, the names, if it’s a spreader… so on. Thank you
Thanks Beth! Glad you found it helpful!
I am so envious.
Your garden is lovely.
Thank you Susan!