identify the ground cover plant

I want a lovely darkish dense low lying ground cover perennial for a bit of my allotment that I can grow from seed. I love this purple stuff with the blue edge along the path but I dont know what it is.

Any ideas??

thanks

 

Looks like either Aubrieta or Phlox subulata/douglassii.

 

Lovely - but what deos it look like the rest of the year?

you could get a similar effect with thyme.

Very pretty!

 

Thanks, I might just try the Thymus serpyllum (thyme Annie Hall) as an alternative.

 

I dont know what it is u have in your garden sawfish, but it's lovely.m Does it have a perfume? I realised this year, for the first time that Alyssum has a beautiful smell.

 

sawfish it looks lovely looks like Aubretia

 

Definitely aubretia.

I just take a bit of existing clumps and transplant it to where I want ground cover. It takes so easily. no need for seeds. :D

 

here is a list of latin names and you can click on the one you are interested in to see some beautiful pictures

http://forum.funghiitaliani.it/index.php?showtopic=17763

and then you click on:
INDICE DELLE SCHEDE BOTANICHE DEL FORUM

[ 11. October 2006, 06:00 PM: Message edited by: miraflores ]

 

Apologies to Sawfish here as I am on a thread-drift (socialising/educational, if you will...), but I'll keep it brief.

Miraflores - are you of Italian origin perhaps? I'm reading "between the lines" of your previous message.
Additionally, your icon/avatar (or whatever its called) is very interesting - any details you may be able to offer as to what is represents please?

Kind regards!
Royster

 

royster, my,my, you are so nosey. what am I going to do with you. :D :D

 

Its my favourite comedian Ivor Cutler.

http://www.ivorcutler.org/sessions.html

:D

 

Yes Royster, I am Italian 100% !
That avatar represents a garden-plant-stand





and it was chosen uniquely because it expresses my character quite well (you will wonder... what a character!). i just picked it somewhere online. On the other hand the name "miraflores" is chosen with lot of love, thinking of central and south america. Also, my ideal garden I suppose would be a kind of brazilian forest (wheter i will ever get to that...)

 

Talking of ground cover, I have just removed from one bed a plant that has turned out to be a bit of a thug in that bed - pretty though, both leaf and blue flower.

Ceratostigma - now I think it might be plumbaginoids - but the description is not quite right, low growing forms a clump and spreads by fibrous roots.