My backyard is all mini-clover and I really love it! It’s also between my pavers and I mow it to keep it at a 3” height, looks green even in the winter. As ground cover in my flower beds I have Japanese Mazus. I have one rose flower bed that I only have strawberries as ground cover and it’s wonderful to eat strawberries as I water the roses 😊.
I need to look up that Japanese Mazus, I have yet to learn of it. Yes, I agree, I enjoy eating what berries the birds leave me as I putter around my garden too.
I, just recently, realized with using mulch on all the bare areas and paths on my property that my driveway would perennially be a mountain of dropped off mulch so this video was perfect for me. My home is 114 years old and no one ever put in a concrete driveway. The property is 100' across the front (and 200' deep) and half of the front is a circular driveway. Now, I will probably keep that plastic based wood chips but just ordered the creeping Veronica in bulk for the 1/4 acre+ in the back. 👍 Because I could never get the wood chips "in the back 40" deep enough, the weeds were a constant problem so put the plastic sheeting below them, too. But recently I thought of all the water I was deterring having the plastic underneath. I also wondered if the plastic made an inhospitable environment for the worms, etc, so I'm hoping the ground cover will be the hot ticket. Sure SOUNDS easier. Thanks so much for posting this information! 👍
I hope it is easier for you too. I just was at a friends house and she has different ground covers on her slope but the main one is creeping jenny and it looks great and keeps weeds to a minimum.
Beautiful looking natural garden and great ideas for different types of ground cover plants. I'm so lucky that I can make enough compost to mulch my flowerbeds and my mothers flowerbeds every March.
Gorgeous backgrounds in each and every clip you shared! Totally understandable that it was time consuming........ LOVE your videos, enjoyed each teachable moment. Thank you!
You are so welcome! thank you for your kind words, I do love how the garden really can be seen down in it to give you all a feel for how gorgeous it really is right now.
Hello there dear flower patch lady, pam, Hello little Rachel also.shes a delightful 🐈 cat,.I am watching a second time once again I keep getting side tracked looking at all your flowers, I to say your garden s are the most beautiful looking garden s I have seen this year, the gorgeous variety and colorimeter loveing everything.?you must be so chuffed and want to stroll around and sit from dawn till dusk. 😊.very interwith all the little ground covers.yeep I love very much the little roman chamomile. From very young I have loved the smell. Thankyou for such a delightful video. Bless y,hi to your chickens from me and my garden girls x😊
Getting down into the garden really does show off how beautiful it is right now. You are right, I am thoroughly enjoying being out in it as often as I can!
What an informative video! Oh my gosh... Thank you so much for the many options that I can look up to see if they work in my zone. I'm just encouraged now, and thank you very much for all your hard work making this video. I so much appreciate it.❤❤
enjoyed video thanks for sharing with us on ground covers. i need to plant some in my garden to control some of the weeds i have. right now we have not had much rain so everything looks dead. can't water everything, and i do not have drip. i hope you have a great day and thanks again.
i have been watching your channel for a while and now I subscribe to it. I find that your garden is very much like mine. I am gardening in zone 9 a or b, i am not sure. i live in California close to the coast above San Francisco. i also have the dreaded gopher. Do any of your ground covers escape being eaten? Early in my gardening I planted ground cover between pavers and in several weeks all of it had been eaten. I would like to find something that they won't eat.
I am so glad you are here! Well, I have discovered that gophers will eat one thing and leave others alone one year then the next they switch. So far they have not eaten most of my ground covers at all. The beds in which they are the most problematic have creeping thyme in them and they haven't bother those at all but that could be just for now. Wish I could have a more definitive answer.
There were video clips of most of them incorporated into the video. I just reviewed it briefly, seems my blue star creeper clip somehow did not show up and the lamium but the rest are there.
Great topic! I've just recently been considering planting very low growing plants or ground covers. I live in TX where it gets really hot, dry and very windy. I don't want to put mulch everywhere. But I also don't want the weeds. I have a weed called Purslane, the native type with very tiny not attractive yellow flowers, which though, yes, it is edible and hurray for that, it reseeds so readily I've even weeded it out of hanging baskets!! It is everywhere!! And it's root system is really extensive in loose soils, and it's succulent leaves rob the soil of water! If it formed a dense and low enough ground cover I might appreciate it more, but it doesn't, it lets grass seed easily take hold, so if I just blink over a bare soil spot I have both purslane and grass growing there. So, I'm thinking I need ground covers which are dense enough to keep out the grass, but which I can plant my garden plants through. Thank you for this list, I will check them out!!
Nice video and helpful, but it would be better if you put photos of all the plants you are listing. There were a couple you missed. Yes, I can look for them myself, but presenting the content, it would be nice to see them.
Hi Pam, I really enjoy watching your videos. When you were talking about the thyme and sitting under an arch, there is a magenta/deep pink rose in the background. Would you minding telling me the name of that rose?
I think you mean my Tess d'Ubervilles rose. See my latest Rose Cottage Garden tour and it will tell you that name of that one, if I am thinking of the correct one: th-cam.com/video/XtlPaTB5fdQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JhEbv4kvMSyRwWHv In that video I get up close to it at the 9 minute mark and call it my Tess rose. If I am thinking of the wrong one please to ask again.
A-Ha! Finally! You are the first TH-camr that swatted at a mosquito! I was thinking it was just in my yard! They are hideous here! If your garden were here you would need a transfusion 5 minutes in. 😅 Your purple clematis is 🤩🤩🤩 I’m getting ready to start a small rock garden to save the hens and chicks and looking at some small Well Behaved ground covers. I just seen a vid and there was a plant called brass buttons that was nice. Others were, wooly thyme, mother of thyme and elfin thyme. I have thyme and a new Orangelo thyme and don’t think the latter over winters here so may bring it in later. Haven’t tried it yet either but sounds delish! My warning is do not plant stonecrop that was known as ‘Steppables’ if you have sandy dry soil-It Loves it and spreads all over the yard and is Hell to get rid of. I have spent years trying to get rid of it and it was here when we moved in. It gets a yellow flower-Just a hideous behavior. And I like the looks of lamium but I don’t know-nervous. Ajuga appeared in the garden and can push thick turf out of its way also. With all this rain, heat and humidity there will be a lot of mildew and fungus issues here. Never had rust on hollyhocks before and hope I got it all. Had to rip up most of red poppies as it just wasn’t allowing things to dry out. Amazing enough I had to water a few things. Every time I water or fuss with irrigation it rains. Mother Nature is having a great time here. I don’t want to complain about rain, but we almost had an inch in the last 40 minutes and things were already pretty moist with more through Saturday. It sounds like M N has her hand on a faucet turning it full blast at times😂. I am trying ice plant for first time and it’s a bit finicky to get started and believe it is an annual here. It didn’t like the heat in one spot yet put it in another area and it appears to love it. It’s similar to moss rose but really sparkly greenery. Can’t wait for blooms. Hopefully this rain isn’t too much as they dislike soggy feet and rich soil. Lol, sorry but we are having Huge drops of heavy rain on and off right now through your whole video. Flood warnings. Thanks for all the info-made notes.
I don't blame you for being cautious and thanks for the warning! It is heading into hot and dry here. I need to run to the hardware store and get some fittings for my irrigation system. I have found dry spots where I need a bit more to water more evenly.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouselol, at the end you mentioned bishops weed and it was a call in question this week on news and our nursery lady advised the person to stop by for a chem that would be strong enough to kill it. I don’t think I can garden again today. We have puddles on our sand which is rare. It’s weird to have green grass.
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Your garden is beautiful. I love all your videos. I really love seeing all your flowers in bloom. All of your hard work has paid off.
So nice of you, thank you so much.
My backyard is all mini-clover and I really love it! It’s also between my pavers and I mow it to keep it at a 3” height, looks green even in the winter. As ground cover in my flower beds I have Japanese Mazus. I have one rose flower bed that I only have strawberries as ground cover and it’s wonderful to eat strawberries as I water the roses 😊.
I need to look up that Japanese Mazus, I have yet to learn of it. Yes, I agree, I enjoy eating what berries the birds leave me as I putter around my garden too.
I, just recently, realized with using mulch on all the bare areas and paths on my property that my driveway would perennially be a mountain of dropped off mulch so this video was perfect for me. My home is 114 years old and no one ever put in a concrete driveway. The property is 100' across the front (and 200' deep) and half of the front is a circular driveway. Now, I will probably keep that plastic based wood chips but just ordered the creeping Veronica in bulk for the 1/4 acre+ in the back. 👍
Because I could never get the wood chips "in the back 40" deep enough, the weeds were a constant problem so put the plastic sheeting below them, too. But recently I thought of all the water I was deterring having the plastic underneath. I also wondered if the plastic made an inhospitable environment for the worms, etc, so I'm hoping the ground cover will be the hot ticket. Sure SOUNDS easier.
Thanks so much for posting this information! 👍
I hope it is easier for you too. I just was at a friends house and she has different ground covers on her slope but the main one is creeping jenny and it looks great and keeps weeds to a minimum.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse
Oh wow! Just looked it up and it sounds like the perfect grower for around the rocks circling my pond. 👍
Beautiful looking natural garden and great ideas for different types of ground cover plants. I'm so lucky that I can make enough compost to mulch my flowerbeds and my mothers flowerbeds every March.
That is great! I can't make enough to do the job but I do put it in some areas.
Gorgeous backgrounds in each and every clip you shared! Totally understandable that it was time consuming........ LOVE your videos, enjoyed each teachable moment. Thank you!
You are so welcome! thank you for your kind words, I do love how the garden really can be seen down in it to give you all a feel for how gorgeous it really is right now.
Hello there dear flower patch lady, pam, Hello little Rachel also.shes a delightful 🐈 cat,.I am watching a second time once again I keep getting side tracked looking at all your flowers, I to say your garden s are the most beautiful looking garden s I have seen this year, the gorgeous variety and colorimeter loveing everything.?you must be so chuffed and want to stroll around and sit from dawn till dusk. 😊.very interwith all the little ground covers.yeep I love very much the little roman chamomile. From very young I have loved the smell. Thankyou for such a delightful video. Bless y,hi to your chickens from me and my garden girls x😊
Getting down into the garden really does show off how beautiful it is right now. You are right, I am thoroughly enjoying being out in it as often as I can!
What an informative video! Oh my gosh... Thank you so much for the many options that I can look up to see if they work in my zone. I'm just encouraged now, and thank you very much for all your hard work making this video. I so much appreciate it.❤❤
Glad it was helpful!
off topic, your hair is stunning. I need more groundcover, it's such an afterthought for me :(
Thank you, keeping my hair long makes it less maintenance for me. I am lazy.
enjoyed video thanks for sharing with us on ground covers. i need to plant some in my garden to control some of the weeds i have. right now we have not had much rain so everything looks dead. can't water everything, and i do not have drip. i hope you have a great day and thanks again.
You are most welcome.
i have been watching your channel for a while and now I subscribe to it. I find that your garden is very much like mine. I am gardening in zone 9 a or b, i am not sure. i live in California close to the coast above San Francisco. i also have the dreaded gopher. Do any of your ground covers escape being eaten? Early in my gardening I planted ground cover between pavers and in several weeks all of it had been eaten. I would like to find something that they won't eat.
I am so glad you are here! Well, I have discovered that gophers will eat one thing and leave others alone one year then the next they switch. So far they have not eaten most of my ground covers at all. The beds in which they are the most problematic have creeping thyme in them and they haven't bother those at all but that could be just for now. Wish I could have a more definitive answer.
Could you show photos of the ground covers? Thanks. Enjoy the subject but it would be helpful to see the items.
There were video clips of most of them incorporated into the video. I just reviewed it briefly, seems my blue star creeper clip somehow did not show up and the lamium but the rest are there.
I have spiderwort and fills up a large area in my back garden but it’s aggressive and pops up everywhere… grows up into my daylilies and liriope.
Here that is not hardy but I do have other things that are aggressive like that and that is the worst to contend with.
Great topic! I've just recently been considering planting very low growing plants or ground covers. I live in TX where it gets really hot, dry and very windy. I don't want to put mulch everywhere. But I also don't want the weeds. I have a weed called Purslane, the native type with very tiny not attractive yellow flowers, which though, yes, it is edible and hurray for that, it reseeds so readily I've even weeded it out of hanging baskets!! It is everywhere!! And it's root system is really extensive in loose soils, and it's succulent leaves rob the soil of water! If it formed a dense and low enough ground cover I might appreciate it more, but it doesn't, it lets grass seed easily take hold, so if I just blink over a bare soil spot I have both purslane and grass growing there. So, I'm thinking I need ground covers which are dense enough to keep out the grass, but which I can plant my garden plants through. Thank you for this list, I will check them out!!
I am so glad you found it inspirational. I am sure there are many more out there, this list is just what I have personally grown.
Thank you! I am so tired of shelling out for mulch.
You are so welcome! I hear you. It can get pricy and think of all those plastic bags going to the landfills.
Nice video and helpful, but it would be better if you put photos of all the plants you are listing. There were a couple you missed. Yes, I can look for them myself, but presenting the content, it would be nice to see them.
I had added them but when I rendered the video they were not there so I hear you but things happen.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Oh I see. I'm sorry. Thank you for the explanation. Beautiful garden.
Hi Pam,
I really enjoy watching your videos. When you were talking about the thyme and sitting under an arch, there is a magenta/deep pink rose in the background. Would you minding telling me the name of that rose?
I think you mean my Tess d'Ubervilles rose. See my latest Rose Cottage Garden tour and it will tell you that name of that one, if I am thinking of the correct one: th-cam.com/video/XtlPaTB5fdQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JhEbv4kvMSyRwWHv
In that video I get up close to it at the 9 minute mark and call it my Tess rose. If I am thinking of the wrong one please to ask again.
Thank you! I think you are right. Do you think it is a dark pink magenta or a red?
@@LavenderandBluebirds It is more of a dark magenta than a true red.
vinca major is the tall one minor is short
That makes sense, thank you.
Nice idea 🌱🌸👍
Thank you! I felt it would help many folks out that can't really spend every year for mulch nor the strength to spread it.
I wish you had all of the names showing on screen as you talk.
When I get more help in filming and editing I will be able to take the time to add that more often but I do what I can.
A-Ha! Finally! You are the first TH-camr that swatted at a mosquito! I was thinking it was just in my yard! They are hideous here! If your garden were here you would need a transfusion 5 minutes in. 😅
Your purple clematis is 🤩🤩🤩
I’m getting ready to start a small rock garden to save the hens and chicks and looking at some small Well Behaved ground covers. I just seen a vid and there was a plant called brass buttons that was nice. Others were, wooly thyme, mother of thyme and elfin thyme. I have thyme and a new Orangelo thyme and don’t think the latter over winters here so may bring it in later. Haven’t tried it yet either but sounds delish!
My warning is do not plant stonecrop that was known as ‘Steppables’ if you have sandy dry soil-It Loves it and spreads all over the yard and is Hell to get rid of. I have spent years trying to get rid of it and it was here when we moved in. It gets a yellow flower-Just a hideous behavior.
And I like the looks of lamium but I don’t know-nervous. Ajuga appeared in the garden and can push thick turf out of its way also.
With all this rain, heat and humidity there will be a lot of mildew and fungus issues here. Never had rust on hollyhocks before and hope I got it all. Had to rip up most of red poppies as it just wasn’t allowing things to dry out.
Amazing enough I had to water a few things. Every time I water or fuss with irrigation it rains. Mother Nature is having a great time here.
I don’t want to complain about rain, but we almost had an inch in the last 40 minutes and things were already pretty moist with more through Saturday. It sounds like M N has her hand on a faucet turning it full blast at times😂.
I am trying ice plant for first time and it’s a bit finicky to get started and believe it is an annual here. It didn’t like the heat in one spot yet put it in another area and it appears to love it. It’s similar to moss rose but really sparkly greenery. Can’t wait for blooms. Hopefully this rain isn’t too much as they dislike soggy feet and rich soil.
Lol, sorry but we are having Huge drops of heavy rain on and off right now through your whole video. Flood warnings.
Thanks for all the info-made notes.
I don't blame you for being cautious and thanks for the warning! It is heading into hot and dry here. I need to run to the hardware store and get some fittings for my irrigation system. I have found dry spots where I need a bit more to water more evenly.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouselol, at the end you mentioned bishops weed and it was a call in question this week on news and our nursery lady advised the person to stop by for a chem that would be strong enough to kill it.
I don’t think I can garden again today. We have puddles on our sand which is rare. It’s weird to have green grass.