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About this video:
Have you ever gotten tired of mulching? Truth be told, while I love the look of a newly mulched garden, I really don’t enjoy the work involved. Over the last several years, I’ve been adding ground covers to some areas. My hope is that over time, these ground cover perennials and evergreens will continue to spread, so that those areas will require little to no mulch. Which means less effort on my part to maintain a beautiful garden. Tell me are you team mulch, or team groundcover, or do you prefer a combination of both? Thanks for watching – Steph (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b) #gardening #gardeningtips
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Thank you for putting names on the screen!
First time watching one of your videos. I saw lots of the ground covered with “black row cloth”. Why do you have it in so many areas?
I love the lamium your friend gave you it looks really cool with a stripe
On that slope I would try a rock garden combination dry river bed.
Ajuga is a favorite of mine. Easy to grow and thrive in my hot, humid climate. The purple dragon is beautiful. I like annual if possible.
I live in zone 7B. Great video. So when I moved into my house in 2003, I did have front/side/back lawns. But drought conditions and hardwood trees caused the grass to die and not bounce back. I tried all sorts of things and reseeded each year. No luck. So I gave up. Luckily I have a small property so I decided to just plant perennials. It has taken a while and a pretty penny but my property is coming along. I love Hellebores/sedum/ajuga and anything evergreen. Makes the maintenance a bit lower. I did plant vinca and asiatic jasmine and while they can look nice, they are so invasive that it is a good news/bad news situation…covers a lot of ground (and quickly) but looks a bit too ragged/viney for me. I am going to try Lambs Ears. Like it.
Beautiful gardens! I have barrenwort, which I love & sweet woodruff, lamiun 'white nancy', white anemone 'snowdrop'. Many varieties of geranium, so easy.
Thanks for sharing the varieties of ground cover. I also use creeping thyme serphyllum in an extremely hot, dry area which is contained. It is so fragrant by our back door. Sedum Angelina is also a favorite in my garden. No muss, no fuss, no mulch!
Your presentation was perfection! You’ve done such a beautiful job. Thank you for sharing
I agree with your assessment on more plants,,,and flower coverages
Thank you for your video, am definitely gonna try some of these.
So many lovely choices! I hope to incorporate several soon!!
Love ground covers but the problem is time and geography. Our home (middle TN) is very rainy and packed with trees. I have about 1/3 acres under landscaping and each year have literally thousands of small (or large) elms, oaks, maples, etc seedlings that flood the area. This stops around June but until then they must be pulled or I'd get a zillion trees. I finally used some cardboard over some parts. I'd love any suggestions.
This video is right on time. I am deciding on ground covers are great.
Greeting's from Ireland, I grow ajuga and brunerra jack frost in pot's and orvala in the garden bed.
Helen Von Stein does bloom. Not much though. I have a huge patch. Love it. I also have blue spruce and Angelina sedum, ice plant, and Mother of Thyme (creeping thyme). I also have helebores– I never knew they could be a ground cover.
I took one clump of violets from my parents yard many years ago. I’ve been able to do away with mulch in one garden bed. I’m starting to transplant to my other large bed to do away with the annual chore and cost of throwing down bags of mulch. Yes they pop up all over my yard but they can be popped out with a weed popper if need be. They also give bunnies something to eat instead of my plants . Oh and they choke out weeds like crazy. They are just stunning in spring with their tiny purple flowers.
I also have ajuga chocolate chip. Started out with two 8 cell containers five years ago and now it's spread out everywhere. Love the flowers in spring.
Indiana zone 5 I have liliy of the valley and ivy that spread well and I dont need mulch
Your garden is amazing, I loved the video on perennials for beginners Thank You
Love your video. I find that when I plant ground covers in my garden they always get a bit out of control. I'm getting away from mulch in my beds and use compost for top dressing and only use mulch in my pathways or stone between my rocks. I'm not ever using landscape fabric again. I used it many years ago when I first installed my one acre gardens and I still find pieces of it flying around from underneath my paths. It never prevents weeds and ends up breaking down rather fast and just makes a mess. I'd rather just weed and not have pieces of landscape fabric all around my gardens showing here and there after 25 years. Nothing works like proper weeding with a good sharp weeding knife.
I spotted some girdling roots around your tree by your Chocolate Chip Bugleweed. They look really easy to cut. From the base, looks like it is a white oak?
I love pachysandra for dry areas, always evergreen. Longwood and Winterthur have huge areas under trees with this cover.
I love seeing all these lovely plants!! Your garden shows the pleasure that you & yr. husband take in creating it – thank you for the great ideas for ground covers!
Interesting
The chocolate chip ajuga is better behaved than the other varieties. That's its selling point.
your videos are great
@HookedandRooted ☘️ Your plants are so healthy! Gorgeous hellebores! I am currently obsessed with ajugas & lamiums. I have big dreams for MY European Ginger but it’s taking its sweet, sweet time! 😝
nice vidio
I do love the sedum and creeping Jenny does well in my zone 8a garden. Lamium has been a struggle for me but I really like it. Thanks 😊
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You have just hit the nail on the head! I came across this video this morning just as I was reviewing my bed. Every spring once I know what’s coming up I put on a layer of mulch but I thought next year I would not add mulch and just add compost along with some ground covers. So how timely is this video for me. Thank you so much and I must say I love your no nonsense narration.
Le géranium macrorrhizum est le plus intéressant : il pousse très très vite, couvre les zones ingrates du jardin, « absorbe » les feuilles qui tombent des arbres donc plus besoin de les ratisser. Il ne disparaît pas beaucoup en hiver, se déplace facilement, n’est jamais malade. La varieté Spessart à fleurs blanches et rose pâle est la plus jolie. C’est un vrai couvre sol super efficace et les abeilles en raffolent.
I really like the Pacific Blue juniper. It has a nice blue tint and it spreads wonderfully
Is the geranium a perennial?
Hi Steph! Amazing video as always! You are a natural! Thank you for all of the gardening advice and for sharing your beautiful garden with gardeners around the world.
Invasive doesn't always mean it overtakes YOUR garden. It means it gets into the natural ecosystem and takes over there when it seeds and no one to control it, killing out native plants that animals depend on, therefore killing out animals. Dead nettle and Bugleweed are both invasive and are listed on the invasive list Atlas. Neither of which are native to North America which causes it to be invasive. Once it seeds and gets in the wild it's too late. I hate that places are still allowed to sell these invasive plants. Some states have outlawed them. Same for Bradford Pear and Nandina.
Thank you for the great ideas for ground cover! Also, it's "byou-gl weed", like the instrument. Not "bug-el"
But you still have a lot of mulch between the plants. Was this all just created?
Magical I love it
Is that the evergreen that smells so good?
I’m hooked and rooted too! Much love from Chicago❤️❤️❤️
I have most of these. Also bishops weed (invasive) and we'll behaved Japanese Spurgeon make great ground covers. Thanks
Mulch replenishes and conditions soil
Great suggestions. I would add Speedwell Waterperry blue. Low profile with pretty blue flowers covering it in Spring. Takes sun or shade. Spreads easily but easily removed where it is not wanted. Comes in a white flower also.
Chocolate Chip Ajuga reverted on me after a year in the ground and was very difficult to remove – I did not care for the look of it after the reversion. I also had a sedum groundcover that looked awful after it was done flowering and re-seeded everywhere – it was a nightmare to get rid of, took close to 3 years because of all the volunteers that came up each year. I love using groundcovers but I am very cautious about what I will use now because of past experience.