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November 28th, 2025
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Each week, enjoy exclusives on Plants and our tips for your Plantations |
| Top 5 of Ground-covering and Spreading Plants |
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Discover the 5 must-have plants to revegetate your outdoor spaces:
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| 1. Le Ivy 'Bellecour' |
- Description : A compact and highly ornamental variety of Ivy, ideal for situations that require structure without becoming too invasive. Its foliage is dense and a beautiful pure green.
- Assets : Highly resistant to both cold and drought. It thrives in dry undergrowth or when used to cover walls and embankments.
- Exposure : Shade to partial shade.
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| 2. L'Orpin (Sedum) |
- Description : Sedums are succulent plants available in hundreds of varieties (creeping or upright). The ground-cover varieties form really thick carpets, often tinted in yellow, red or purple.
- Assets :: It's the drought champion! Its capacity to store water makes it unbeatable on poor soils or on green roofs.
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| 3. The Landscape Rose |
- Description : These roses are selected for their spreading habit, their disease resistance and their amazingly long and abundant flowering, often going from May to first frost.
- Assets : They offer the charm of the rose without the pruning constraint. Perfect to stabilise a slope or to create large, coloured areas.
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| 4. Wild Thyme (Thymus serpyllum) |
- Description : This is the creeping and wild version of thyme. It forms a very low, dense green carpet and releases a strong fragrance when brushed. Its pink or mauve flowers are highly melliferous.
- Assets : : Ideal to replace the lawn in lightly trodden areas, between the flagstones on the path, or atop a small stonewall. Drought resistant.
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| 5. The Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora / Lippia nodiflora) |
- Description : This hardy little plant forms an incredibly low carpet. It produces small, white and pink flowers, and is often used as a substitute to natural lawn.
- Assets : It's one of the best "lawn substitute" available today. It is semi-persistant and tolerates light foot traffic and even drought once established.
- Exposure : Sun to partial shade.
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| News of the week: Christmas Rose (Hellebore) now available |
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As the garden falls asleep and the cold sets in, the Christmas Rose (or Hellebore) awakens to offer its sumptuous flowers. It's the true star of winter!
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Our favourite: The Oriental Christmas Rose 'Hello Red'
Its small flowers in shades of red will brighten up your garden this winter. |
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| A Reader's Question: "I have a large slope to revegetate. What advice could you give me to stabilise and cover this slope without having to water all summer?" |
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The secret to success is dense planting. To stabilise the slope effectively and avoid weeding, space young plants about thirty centimetres apart and add mulching during the first years to keep the moisture until the coverage is complete.
For a dry and sunny slope, you should choose plants which do not require much watering once established.
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