identify the ground cover plant

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  1. sawfish

    sawfish Gardener

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    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??

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  2. Palustris

    Palustris Total Gardener

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    Looks like either Aubrieta or Phlox subulata/douglassii.
     
  3. Waco

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

    you could get a similar effect with thyme.

    Very pretty!
     
  4. sawfish

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

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    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.
     
  6. FANCY

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    sawfish it looks lovely looks like Aubretia
     
  7. badsal72

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    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
     
  8. miraflores

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    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 ]
     
  9. Royster

    Royster Gardener

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    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
     
  10. FANCY

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

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


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    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...)
     
  13. Fran

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    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.
     
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