Bodage cover systems should not be overlooked when planning a garden. By covering bare floor stains, you contribute to bringing a room together, creating a wall carpet made of textures and colors and at the same time keeps weeds in chess.
There are many floor covering systems to choose from, including underestimated options and those that attract hummingbirds. But if you really want to increase the sensory experience of your space, it is worth adding a few perfumed picks to your list.
Below you will find five fragrant plants recommended by garden experts for your soil insurance needs. Everyone has pretty flowers and, if they are planted in the right place, are also easy to maintain.
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5 best fragrant floor covering systems
I love these perfumed flower picks to turn borders in the back yard. After all, who would not want to fill empty soil with fragrant growing plants?
1. Creeping thyme
This low -growing plant is drought
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Creeping thyme (Thymus Serpyllum) is an excellent selection of floor covering, drought -tolerant, easy to maintain and output a pleasant, vegetable fragrance.
Justin Hancock by Costa Farms and Gärtner Gail Pabst recommend both and emphasizes his resistance to deer and rabbits as well as the attractiveness for pollinators.
“It can be evergreen in light winter areas, but it tends to be ridiculous in northern landscapes,” says Justin. “Individual plants can spread more than one foot over time, but tend to be over three inches.
It is often used in low -maintenance landscapes between paving stones, hidden in stone walls and used in other places where its silver -green leaves and pink flowers can be enjoyed, Justin adds. You can even grow a creeping thyme lawn that has numerous advantages.
Creeping thyme seeds are available from Amazon.
Justin Hancock is a horticulture of Costa Farms with over 25 years in the industry. As a plant lover and educator, he has a degree in gardening and worked in garden centers and botanical gardens, as a garden designer and in garden publisher (including AT Better houses and gardens). He has experience in the whole country, from Minnesota to Oregon to Miami. Justin is also the co-moderator of the Costa Farms Podcast Plant RX.
Gail is a passionate gardener with over 25 years of experience in the industry. She is also an enthusiastic home gardener and loves trying out the latest varieties and techniques. Gails work with the National Garden Bureau and the All-America selection helped her to inspire and teach her mission with other gardening.
2. Creep rosemary
Rosemary flowers are magnets for pollinators
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Justin also adds creeping rosemary (Salvia Rosemary) on our list. This plant, he explains, is a low -growing form of ordinary rosemary, which offers the same fragrant, needle -like leaves, but in a form of propagation (it is usually about one foot and can distribute several foot over itself).
“It is drought-tolerant, deer and rabbit resistant and useful to cook,” continues Justin.
'As a perennial, it grows in zones 8-10, but in cooler areas you can enjoy its beauty and fragrance as an annual ground cover.
It produces lavender blue flowers in spring; These flowers attract butterflies and colibris. It can best be in full sun and well -tearing soil. '
Creeping rosemary systems can be bought from Nature Hills when buying.
3. Fire Diathus
The flowers have a spicy, kiewean -like fragrance
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Firefighters' Diathus (Dianthus “Feuerhexe”) offers a beautiful, silver blue leaves that are crowned with spicy pink flowers in the late spring, says Justin.
It is not a fan of damp, heavy clay soil, he places a fixed position in a place that tears off well and is sunny. “It didn't spread as quickly as other, more traditional ground covers and grow around six inches tall and 12 inches wide, so it is a good choice for small rooms.” It is hardy in zones 3-8.
These pretty bloomers also go well with the growth of the container. You can buy Firewitch Dianhus plants from Nature Hills.
4. Nepeta
Try to use Nepeta to soften the edges of the paths
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With its silver, aromatic leaves and purple flowers, nepeta or catnip are well suited for gardens in the Mediterranean in style, hut gardens and modern plans.
Nikki Bruner from Perfect Plants Nurery recommends the “Walker Low” variety, which spreads up to three feet wide. Alternatively, try “Purple Haze”, suggested by Chuck Pavlich, director of new product development with Terra Nova Nurseries. “In contrast to many other perennials, it keeps a clean, decent habit throughout the season, which requires practically no maintenance, which makes it particularly attractive for landscapes with low EFFORTS,” he says.
Plant Nepeta somewhere sunny, with a well -tearing floor. By correcting it properly, you can encourage more flowers throughout the season.
Live -nepeta plants are available via Amazon.
Nikki Bruner is the marketing specialist at Perfect Plants Nurery. With a passion for plants and eight years of expertise in marketing, Nikki combines her knowledge of the kindergarten industry with her creative thinking in order to promote and highlight the extraordinary offers of perfect plants. It strives to ensure customer satisfaction and give valuable knowledge for system lovers.
Chuck Pavlich, who was trained at Washington State University, has been working in kindergarten business for 30 years. Chuck brings his passion for plants to Terra Nova®. As director of the new product development, he is responsible for new ideas for the breeders and supervises and supervises the breeding process and leads new products to the multi -year market.
5. Sweet Woodruff
A great choice for a shady place
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To cover naked earth in forest gardens and other areas that don't get much sun, sweet Woodruff (Rubia smell) can be ideal. Justin emphasizes the lush green leaves that smell like freshly mowned hay, and the pile of white flowers in the middle of spring. These flowers are also fragrant.
“This ground cover is generally considered a deer and rabbit resistant, although it is not tolerant,” he says.
“It is a useful plant for moist, shaded places where you cannot let lawn grass grow. A single plant can be distributed about 18 inches and can be 12 inches in size, but it can be a quick spread by seedlings and underground roots. 'It is hardy in zones 4-8.
Faqs
What are some fragrant floor covering systems for shadows?
If you are looking for fragrant soil covers that grow well in the shade, you should consider sweet Woodruff that are mentioned above. Or try corydalis 'Blackberry Wine'. According to Chuck, the latter has finely chopped blue-green leaves, which offer a graceful backdrop for hundreds of fragrant blackberry twin colors that appear from early summer to autumn. “With his cascade, the following habit, it is particularly striking as a floor covering among bushes,” he adds.
What are some fragrant evergreen floor covering systems?
Creeping rosemary, fire diatanthus and creeping thyme are evergreen soil in the right climate. You can also try creeping phlox (Phlox subulata) -Gail says that its needle-like leaves can be used to make a cascade via walls, rock gardens and slopes, and that the spring flowers attract pollinators.
According to Nikki, you can also grow star jasmine-a fragrant, rapidly growing climber as a floor cover. “It thrives in full sun to partially shadow and prefers well -drained, loamy soil,” she advises, adding that it is recommended to cut it after flowering to maintain the shape and remove excess growth. You can buy star Jasmine from Perfect Plants Nurery.
In addition to the ground cover, it is important to choose some larger plants for more growing plants for structure and beauty at different levels. If you strive for more aromatic options, our guides can provide inspiration for fragrant trees, fragrant shrubs and fragrant data protection systems. And maybe you would also like to read about the worst smelling plants!
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