Summer ground cover to banish those weeds for good! A favourite when I was a child, I couldn't get enough of the small 'snapdragon' blooms, opening and closing them like little puppets in my hand!
Cornflowers are a traditional wildflower or annual border addition. Now you can bring them to yourbaskets and container displays thanks to the relaxed prostrate habit of 'Trailing Blue Carpet?. Perfect for path and border edging. Height 10cm (4in).
This versatile Sweet William is generally grown as a biennial or short-lived perennial to create a carpet of summer flowers in the following year. However, it can be grown as an annual from an early sowing, producing flowers in just 10 weeks! Dianthus barbatus 'Indian Carpet' is a low growing, well branched variety which is sweetly fragrant, with a fabulous colour mix.
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A bright, colourful mix of compact plants, ideal bedding, especially for the front of borders or rockeries in full sun. Flowers from summer to the first frost. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 25cm (10).
Dwarf, compact plants featuring flowers in a range of bright colours, and with a subtle fragrance, making them perfect for spring bedding displays. Height and spread: 30cm (12).
Easy-to-grow, fragrant annual for ground cover in beds, borders and rockeries in a full sun position. Early flowering and long flowering throughout summer. Height: 10cm (4). Spread: 25cm (10).
Create a carpet of colour in borders and rockeries with these brightly coloured daisies. Ideal for dry and sunny positions around the garden. Height: 7.5cm (3). Spread: 30cm (12).
Like magic, the new leaves of this compact deciduous shrub emerge a rich crimson, gradually maturing through to yellow and soft lime! New shoots continue to emerge throughout the growing season for a continuous show of colour and are complimented by clusters of bright pink fluffy flowers in mid to late summer. Spiraea japonica 'Magic Carpet' is easy to grow and excellent for mixed borders, coastal gardens and cottage gardens where the flowers attract pollinating insects. This exciting new Japanese Spiraea has been awarded a prestigious RHS AGM for its outstanding qualities. Height and spread: 60cm (24).
Pachysandra terminalis 'Green Carpet' has lush foliage, which makes for unbeatable groundcover in shaded, woodland areas. In addition to adding a splash of greenery to otherwise unremarkable areas, planting this hardy perennial has the added bonus of preventing the growth of weeds. Instead of worrying about weeding, gardeners can admire the understated spikes of white flowers that appear in June - far preferable to nettles, thistles or dandelions! Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 1m (3'3).
The perfect solution for colourful Spring groundcover, creeping hardy carpet Phlox is a low or no maintenace solution, that spreads evenly for lovely colourful Spring displays. Each plant will spread to 60cm (2ft) across, so plant them in drufts for a capet of colour, or dot around to fill gas and keep weeds at bay. Great in full sun spots, in rockeries, or mixed borders, just avoid very wet winter soil. You will get 1 plant each of the best 4 colours - white, red, pink striped and lilac blue.