What is the fastest growing ground cover plant?

The Best Fast-Growing Ground Cover Plants

• Trailing Periwinkle (Vinca minor)
• Dragon’s Blood (Red Sedum)
• Creeping Phlox (Phlox subulata)
• Golden Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
• Mazus (Mazus reptans)
• Tufted Creeping Phlox (Phlox stolonifera)
• Creeping Thyme (Thymus Serpyllum coccineus)

What is the best plant for ground cover?

20 of the best ground cover plants

• Hardy geraniums.
• ‘Flower Carpet’ roses.
• Bellflower, Campanula.
• Lily of the Valley.
• Lesser periwinkle, Vinca minor.
• Heuchera.
• Aubretia.
• Heather.

What can I use instead of grass in my backyard?

Eco-Friendly Alternatives to a Grassy Lawn

• Groundcovers. Groundcovers sprawl across the ground but don’t grow tall, eliminating the need to mow, providing the perfect alternative to grass.
• Corsican Mint.
• Creeping Thyme.
• Clover.
• Ornamental Grasses.
• Evergreen Moss.
• Native Perennial Beds.
• Artificial Turf.

What can you grow in grass instead of shade?

Shade Lovers

• Moss. In lower, cooler areas, moss can make a beautiful groundcover.
• Creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea).
• Snow-on-the-Mountain, Lily-of-the-Valley, Sweet Woodruff.
• Thyme.
• Anemone.
• Stonecrop.
• White Nancy, Pink Nancy, Anemone, Stonecrop, Sweet Woodruf.

What is a good ground cover plant?

Ground cover plants can serve a variety of functions in the landscape: To covering slopes where mowing can be difficult with grass. Low-growing shrubs, such as ‘Blue Rug’ juniper can work well here, as can low-maintenance perennial creeping plants. For large slopes, daylily makes a good ground cover.

Which myoporum is best for a ground cover?

Creeping myoporum is a spreading ground cover that forms a dense mat of foliage, making it a good choice for use in larger areas where you want green coverage but do not want to mow grass. Because it spreads over such a large area, creeping myoporum is best planted by itself rather than in a mixed bed.

What is the easiest ground cover to grow?

Lily of the Valley is one of the easiest and best flowering ground covers. Its fragrant little bell-shaped white flowers grow well in shade and have long blooming period. Growing lily of the valley plant is possible in cool temperate zones in USDA Zones 2-9.

The fastest growing full-shade ground covers include lily of the valley, goutweed and bugleweed (Ajuga reptans), all of which require moist but well-drained soils.