Ground cover

[Rumi in Hawaii]

We've tried about 6 different kinds of ground cover here, in Mountain View, because we don't want to have to mow. I bought a small pot of lysamachia (may not have that spelled right) from Rozett's Nursery in HPP about a year ago, and put it in a bigger pot. Later on, I separated sections of it and planted it out on our cinders, made sure it was watered if we went thru a dry spell, and occasionally threw a bit of Osmokote on it. Today, we have about 30 sq. feet of the stuff, and it's still growing great. I love it - its light-colored foliage and small yellow flowers are wonderful to look at, the bees like the flowers (which means they're in the vicinity of our gardens to pollinate), it's very very soft to walk on, and it's definitely choking out anything else that tries to grow in the places it's planted. I wish I had bought a ton more at first and planted it all over the cinders where we wanted a ground cover. That'd be my advice - buy enough at first! In my opinion, perennial peanut isn't nearly as attractive nor does it form as tight a "seal" over the ground to keep out grass/weeds.

Katie

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