8 Types Of Low Maintenance Ground Covers For Your Garden

To maintain a lush lawn and a vibrant garden requires money, time, and effort. Whether you pay a landscaper to do it or you do it yourself. One of the ways that you can cut back on the resources and energy you put in your garden is to add ground covers into the landscape. Since there are many of them, you can ask your landscaper to choose one for you or to share with you the options available. Also, you do not want to put a groundcover that will be too costly to maintain. Below are 8 types of low maintenance ground covers for your garden that you can try out. 

1. Heuchera 

Choose the heuchera for its vibrant foliage. That has different colors ranges from silver to brown to green. As an evergreen perennial, it will fit perfectly in most gardens. The leaves have a spread of up to 24 inches, and most of the heuchera plants bloom in the late spring period. Many gardeners love planting the heuchera along the garden edges or in groups as they fit well as a ground cover in that way. It prefers full sun or partial shade and well-draining moist soil. Plus, it is a low maintenance plant, and it resists various kinds of critters such as deer. 

2. Creeping phlox

When you have the honeysuckle as your ground cover, you will lure butterflies, hummingbirds, and other wildlife to your garden. Plant this aromatic honeysuckle that blooms with yellow, red, and white flowers during spring and summer. Not only are they good ground covers to have, but you can position this perennial to grow vertically along the trellises as many gardeners do. It is a low maintenance plant. It does best in moist soil, full sun, and it is a plant resistant to heat. 

5. Creeping jenny 

Probably you have seen a creeping jenny covering a hillside or hanging from a planter. You can tell a creeping jenny due to its trailing branches. As it grows, the creeping jenny takes on a green fountain-like appearance wherever you plant them. The creeping jenny asks little of the gardener in terms of care and maintenance, aside from good exposure to sunlight. Since there is no need to replant every season, deadhead branches that have lost their vibrancy, are useful to naturally resist a hungry deer. 

6. Stonecrop 

If you have a garden that does not seem to thrive with grass, planting the stonecrop ground cover is an easy way to have an evergreen carpet. Do not allow its lush leaves to fool you that they need a lot of water. This ground cover can take root and thrive in a dry and rocky place with much ease. Because of that, it earns its name the “stonecrop." So, with the little water that it receives, its fleshy blue-green leaves retain it and thrive in this dry area. The maintenance that it needs is to weed and mulch around it to avoid any sprouts from stealing water from this low maintenance succulent. In this way, you can enjoy its yellow buds when it blooms in spring. 

7. Brass buttons

This ground cover stands out due to its serrated fern-like leaves. Although it is named so due to the color and shape of their flowers, it succumbs to drought. However, when you plant it in moist soil, they spread vigorously and are strong and thick enough that they can withstand regular foot traffic. Ensure your climate supports this groundcover, to have it remain evergreen and beautiful. In areas that experience cold months, it loses its leaves. Even so, it is still low maintenance.

8. Lamium