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Ground Cover Plants For Hillside Gardens

Ground Cover Plants For Hillside Gardens
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  • Jacob Bradley

Periwinkle or Vinca Minor – a trailing evergreen plant with blue/purple flowers inspiring, this is one of the best ground cover plants for hillside gardening. Dense enough to suppress weeds, it's still loose enough to be interspersed with daffodils and crocus for a spectacular springtime display.

  1. What is the best ground cover for hillsides?
  2. What can I plant on a steep hillside?
  3. What can you plant on hillside to prevent erosion?
  4. What is the fastest growing ground cover plant?
  5. What is the best low-maintenance ground cover?
  6. What is the best ground cover to prevent weeds?
  7. What to plant on a sloping bank?
  8. What can I plant on embankment?
  9. What are the 10 best plants for erosion control?
  10. What can be done to slow erosion on steep slopes?
  11. How do you shore up a hillside?

What is the best ground cover for hillsides?

Steep, sunny slopes are perfect for perennials such as daylilies, creeping phlox, lamb's ears, stonecrop and a variety of ornamental grasses. A number of woody plants can also serve as good groundcovers, especially creeping juniper, fragrant sumac, bearberry, and Russian arborvitae.

What can I plant on a steep hillside?

Deep-rooted plants, such as prairie plants, hold their own on even the steepest slope. Ornamental grasses, ground cover roses and shrubs (including shrub roses with a sprawling growth habit) work well in hillside and slope planting. Native plants are nearly always an excellent choice.

What can you plant on hillside to prevent erosion?

Here's what you can do to strengthen a hilly landscape:

What is the fastest growing ground cover plant?

Flowering Fast-Growing Ground Cover Plants

The most attractive flowering fast-growing ground covers for full sun are phlox, creeping thyme, or rock cress.

What is the best low-maintenance ground cover?

The Best Low-Maintenance Ground Covers for Your Garden

What is the best ground cover to prevent weeds?

20 Low-Maintenance Ground Cover Plants to Prevent Weeds From Taking Over

What to plant on a sloping bank?

Our top 5 plants for banks and slopes:

What can I plant on embankment?

When it comes to selecting plants for your embankment, you have two options – ground cover (plants that remain short but spread quickly) or shrubbery and small trees. Ground covers I like to use include Japanese Pachysandra (Pachysandra terminalis), Periwinkle (Vinca minor) and Lily turf (Liriope muscari).

What are the 10 best plants for erosion control?

What can be done to slow erosion on steep slopes?

Techniques for steep slopes include wood retaining walls, interlocking concrete blocks, rock retaining walls, riprap (loose rock) areas, and terracing. If you choose wood, make sure the wood is treated with a wood preservative to prevent rotting.

How do you shore up a hillside?

  1. Cover bare soil on hillsides with erosion-control netting, which comes in rolls that you simply unroll from top to bottom and pin in place with stakes. ...
  2. Break the steep slope into several level terraces supported with retaining walls made from stone or landscape timbers stacked no more than 3 feet high.

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