Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Ground Cover
I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower
so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? Thanks, Jamie |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
I have a steep slope. Planted azaleas and blue rug juniper. The deer
keep eating the azaleas, but the juniper has done exceptionally well with little care and the color is a nice contrast to the lawn. I planted annuals (mostly marigolds) for a couple years until the juniper spread. It is holding the hillside with no erosion issues. We have acid soil. You can use mulch and/or stones to hold the slope until the roots become established. The stones I used are now hidden by the juniper. On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:16:04 -0500, "Jim" wrote: I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? Thanks, Jamie |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
You can't go wrong with Sedum and Sempervivum.
"Jim" wrote in message ... I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? Thanks, Jamie |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
What was there prior to your clearing it?
-- David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7) email: http://beyondgardening.com/Albums "Jim" wrote in message ... I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? Thanks, Jamie |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
I like Vinca...mine has pretty purplish blue flowers on it, and it seems to
spread pretty quickly. Angie in the boonies of East Texas "Jim" wrote in message ... I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? Thanks, Jamie |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
in one word: SPEARMINT!! smells great, nice low growing, spreads like
crazy...and just think: on the 1st saturday in may, yule be able to make mint juleps for the whole neighbourhood!!!! From: "Jim" Newsgroups: rec.gardens Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:16:04 -0500 Subject: Ground Cover I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? Thanks, Jamie |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
In article , "Jim" wrote:
I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? Thanks, Jamie For a short groundcover that almost never needs watering & loves full sun, sunroses form lovely carpets dense enough that weeds can't get through. Various cultivars come in every cool color except blue, & even when not flowering they provide a varied texture because the leaves are varied from cultivar to cultivar, from grey-blue to shiny green. For a taller groundcover, rockroses have much the same value, but not in as wide an array of colors. If you did create a "sea" of short sunroses, its short height could be broken up at intervals by Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) that come in many colors (the blue one would add the one missing color to the sunrose array) or an upright species rugosa rose. -paghat the ratgirl -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." -Thomas Jefferson |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
In article , SKYlark
wrote: in one word: SPEARMINT!! smells great, nice low growing, spreads like crazy...and just think: on the 1st saturday in may, yule be able to make mint juleps for the whole neighbourhood!!!! Apart from the possibility of becoming invasive & the impossibility of getting it to stay just where it was planted, it dies back in autumn & looks like hell so makes for a poor choice of dominant groundcover. I did see a garden in which mints & golden creeping jenny were used to good effect as the dominant groundcovers; when they were in full take-over-the-world mode they looked spiffy, but come winter the whole area blackened then looked empty. -paghat the ratgirl -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." -Thomas Jefferson |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
It was covered with multiflora rose...I hate that stuff. It took me two
years to get rid of it. The first year I chopped it down with a machette. The second year, after it all died, I cut it up with a lawn mower and raked it out. I hope I never have to do it again! "David J Bockman" wrote in message news:cefZd.4752$wL6.2447@trnddc03... What was there prior to your clearing it? -- David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7) email: http://beyondgardening.com/Albums "Jim" wrote in message ... I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? Thanks, Jamie |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
do you think that the sunroses would work on a VERY steep hill?
like the cliff i have in my front yard facing the lake? -- read and post, rosie "paghat" wrote in message news : In article , "Jim" wrote: : : I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower : so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a : nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. : The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground : cover? : : Thanks, : Jamie : : For a short groundcover that almost never needs watering & loves full sun, : sunroses form lovely carpets dense enough that weeds can't get through. : Various cultivars come in every cool color except blue, & even when not : flowering they provide a varied texture because the leaves are varied from : cultivar to cultivar, from grey-blue to shiny green. For a taller : groundcover, rockroses have much the same value, but not in as wide an : array of colors. If you did create a "sea" of short sunroses, its short : height could be broken up at intervals by Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus : syriacus) that come in many colors (the blue one would add the one missing : color to the sunrose array) or an upright species rugosa rose. : : -paghat the ratgirl : -- : Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he : http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html : "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden : people maintaining a free civil government." -Thomas Jefferson |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
Hi Jamie, I like Cereus-validus's suggestion of Sempervirens and Sedums. Also consider a creeping euonymous, but they are best used in a contained area. There are many different varieties. http://classygroundcovers.com/cat--E...NYMUS-fortunei Here's the main page. You can search by 'evergreen'. Do make sure they are evergreen in your hardiness zone. http://classygroundcovers.com/ If you aren't sure of your hardiness zone you can use this zip code zone finder. http://www.garden.org/zipzone/ I too live in the Mid-Atlantic area in Maryland. There will be a plant swap through GardenWeb.com on May 14th in Burtonsville, Maryland, between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. If you don't have anything to trade, but will bring food, you can probably go home with a trunk full of free goodies, and probably be able to find some of what you need. Just let me know if you are interested and I'll send you the details. There will also be some in other states as well. You can check the references of mailorder sites here. http://davesgarden.com/gwd/ Newt
__________________
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
In article , "rosie read n'
post" wrote: do you think that the sunroses would work on a VERY steep hill? like the cliff i have in my front yard facing the lake? I've never personally seen sunroses growing on a sheer cliff, but in their native range wild ones are known to establish themselves even on limestone cliffs which are pretty harsh places to grow, so I would assume if there's any soil at all to get started on, the fancier cultivars would do fine. And if it's not quite a cliff but really only a steep-steep slope, that's the sort spot they particular like, full sun with sharply draining soil. -paghat the ratgirl -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." -Thomas Jefferson |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
junkyardcat wrote:
I like Vinca...mine has pretty purplish blue flowers on it, and it seems to spread pretty quickly. Angie in the boonies of East Texas "Jim" wrote in message ... I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? If you choose vinca, use only V. minor. V. major can be very invasive. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening pages at URL:http://www.rossde.com/garden/ |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
Jim wrote:
I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? Two low-growing ground covers are pink clover (knotweed, Persicaria capitata, hardy to about 18F) and cinquefoil (Potentilla neumanniana, hardy to 0F). They spread in solid mats of foliage 1-3 inches thick and have nice small flowers. You can then plant shrubs, bulbs, or tall perennials through them. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening pages at URL:http://www.rossde.com/garden/ |
#15
|
|||
|
|||
David Ross wrote:
junkyardcat wrote: I like Vinca...mine has pretty purplish blue flowers on it, and it seems to spread pretty quickly. Angie in the boonies of East Texas "Jim" wrote in message ... I have recently cleared a hill in my yard. It's too steep for a lawn mower so I want to plant a ground cover. Does anyone have any suggesstions for a nice ground cover? I live in the mid-atlantic and the hill is fairly sunny. The hill is about 20' down and 60' across. Maybe more than one ground cover? If you choose vinca, use only V. minor. V. major can be very invasive. Vinca minor here in the PNW is *very* *aggressive*. -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8b Sunset Zone 5 |
Reply |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Growing a Newly Rooted African Violet -- to Cover or Not to Cover? ... | Gardening | |||
Flagstone Labyrinth/Ground Cover | Gardening | |||
Native Plants, Shruds and Ground Cover. | Australia | |||
Ground Cover Suggestions Needed | Gardening | |||
Zone 7A Flowering Ground Cover | Gardening |