"Favorites" shift from season to season, & from mood to mood. But with the
Cyclamen hederofoliums blooming all over the place right now, & the
promise of Cyclamen coum blooms come winter, my favorite autumn/winter
groundcover seems to be, at the moment, cyclamens. They thrive in dry
shade right up near the bases of trees, & we have such a wide variety
of colorful leaf-types so that even when they stop blooming they're still
just amazing.
For a pleasing little evergreen groundcover I'm terribly fond of asarum
wild gingers. They need damper shade than do cyclamens & take a long time
to spread out, but once they take off, they're just too cool.
-paghat the ratgirl
--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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