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Now offering Shake 'N Seed (Patent Pending #13036355) ground covers in addition to ground cover seed sold in packets. No more trouble trying to figure out how to spread your ground cover seed. Simply Shake 'N Seed your way to a beautiful flowering ground cover. Look for the Shake 'n Seed option on indivual ground covers (not available for all seeds). We are also continuously expanding our selection of ground covers so whether it is Irish Moss, Sedum, Dichondra, Creeping Thyme, or some other beautiful ground cover seed, you can find it here. We have annual and perennial ground cover plant seed to meet your needs. |
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Ajuga Groundcover Seed
Ajuga (Ajuga Reptans) - Low-growing Ajuga thrives in partial shade and moist soil with good drainage but will tolerate moderately dry areas. In areas where the winter is not too severe, it stays evergreen, making it an excellent ground cover or addition to containers needing year-round appeal.
Anthyllis
Anthyllis (Anthyllis Vulneraria Coccinea Red Carpet) - This ground cover seed produces low-growing plants that grow to only 6 inches in height. It has a bluish-green foliage that has orange-red flowers when in bloom.
Arenaria Montana
Arenaria (Arenaria Montana) - Establish this evergreen, low-growing, vigorous perennial with Arenaria ground cover seeds. Arenaria is a very classy little alpine or rock garden plant. It forms a low evergreen cushion of dark green leaves, bearing loads of rather large white flowers during the spring months.
Bergenia Cordifolia
Bergenia (Bergenia Cordifolia) - This tough, perennial is a low, laterally spreading, herbaceous ground cover plant that produces new plants from short underground stems. Bergenia is a type of Saxifraga which forms neat mounds of leathery, dark green foliage that grows just 6 inches high. The foliage has great year around appeal.
Creeping Zinnia
Creeping Zinnia (Sanvitalia Procumbens) - What a delightful flowering ground cover plant! So easy to grow from Sanvitalia procumbens ground cover seeds, and what charm and beauty if offers all summer long. This low-growing, mat-forming annual spreads 12 - 18 inches making it ideal for a summer ground cover.
Dahlberg Daisy
Dahlberg Daisy (Thymophylla Tenuiloba Gold Carpet) -Dahlberg daisy is a bushy, much-branched little annual with deeply divided, threadlike leaves and a profusion of small yellow daisy flowers. It has a trailing habit, getting 6 - 8 inches high and spreading a little wider.
Edelweiss
Edelweiss (Leontopodium Alpinum) - Grow these famous flowers from Edelweiss ground cover seed! Edelweiss is a favorite wildflower of the Swiss Alps, best suited to growing in a well-drained rock garden, mass ground cover planting, or alpine trough. Plants form a low clump of silvery grey foliage, bearing clusters of woolly white flowers with small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts in early summer.
Foamflower
Foamflower (Tiarella Wherryi) - Grow this excellent ground cover for shade from Foamflower ground cover seeds. Foamflowers thrive in cool, shaded areas, especially woodland conditions with humus-rich, moisture retentive soil in dappled to full shade.
Gazania
Gazania (Gazania Splendens) - Also known as Treasure Flower, this hardy little plant makes a wonderful ground cover. It is covered with large 3 - 4 inch blooms ranging in colors of red, yellow, orange, white and pink. Gazania ground cover plants will bloom 12 weeks after sowing the ground cover seed! You just can't improve upon these huge blooms, glowing with bright color, that completely cover the small plants.
Hypericum - Cerastoides
Hypericum (Hypericum Cerastoides Silvana) - Grown from ground cover seeds, Hypericum makes a great rock garden addition or weed suppressing ground cover plant. Hypericum prefer sunny locations, where they can enjoy direct solar rays even throughout the whole day. In addition to being a ground cover plant, they also are perfect for creating striking baskets, window boxes, containers and flower beds.
Irish Moss
Irish Moss (Sagina Subulata) - A luxuriant evergreen ground cover plant! Mossy foliage grows just 1 - 2 inches tall, for lovely color between flagstones or spilling over rocks. Dense tufts of slender stems grow together to form a lush carpet of green. Small, star-shaped, white flowers cover this flowering ground cover plant from late spring until mid summer.
Kenilworth Ivy
Kenilworth Ivy (Cymbalaria Muralis) - Grow this lovely ground cover from seed! With scalloped leaves, and pretty lilac colored blooms, Kenilworth makes a wonderful ground cover plant. It performs well even in full shade, and it loves to cascade down a stone wall or spill over the sides of containers.
Legousia Blue
Legousia Blue (Legousia Speculum-veneris Blue) - The spreading ground cover plant is an annual which is covered with pretty purple and lilac-blue flowers with a startling white center. Flowers open in sunshine and close up when the weather is dull or wet. Legousia makes an excellent ground cover plant and is easily grown from ground cover seed. Easy to sow seed directly into borders or as a mass planting.
Limnanthes Douglasii
Poached Egg Plant (Limnanthes Douglasii) - Highly rewarding and very easy to grow, this California native referred to as Poached Egg Plant or Meadow Foam, is not only visually appealing, but has a very nice aroma as well. Poached Egg Plant is not fussy about soil and it will spread in to a very low growing, shiny, weed-supressing mat.
Linaria Alpina
Linaria (Linaria Alpina) - This tiny trailing perennial is sometimes called Alpine Toadflax. It works well as a low-growing ground cover plant and establishes easily with ground cover seeds. It has attractive green-gray foliage and bright violet flowers with an orange spot. It's very eye catching! Linaria perform best in full-sun and well-drained soils.
Melampodium Derby
Melampodium (Golden Yellow) - This versatile ground cover makes a carpet of gold for any sunny location. A gardener's choice for a low-growing, neatly-rounded annual with effortless summer-long blooming.
Moss Milkshake
Got Shade?! If you are looking for a low growing ground cover that can grow in dense shade, then look no further than moss milkshake! Dry moss fragments come pre-ground in a 1/2-gallon "milk" carton, with growth stimulants and a water-retention gel powder.
Pimpernel - Blue
Pimpernel (Anagallis Arvenis Caerulea) - This unusual little plant is originally from Europe. It has a spreading habit which makes it work well edging a border, as a general ground cover plant, and in pots and hanging baskets. Blue Pimpernel flowers are open only when the sun shines. Their habit of closing in dull weather and when rain is approaching has given the plant the name "Poor man's weather-glass."
Polygonum Capitatum
Pinkhead Smartweed (Polygonum Capitatum) - Polygonum capitatum, often called Pinkhead Smartweed, Knotweed,Pink Fleece Flower, as well as many other names is great for a ground cover plant. Smartweed, is a tough, easy to grow ground cover for sun or shade with a long bloom season. Pinkhead Smartweed is also very drought tolerant.
Rock Rose
Rock Rose (Helianthemum Mutabile Mix) - This evergreen flowering plant comes in a mixture of flower colors that include white, pink, rose, red and yellow. With the right conditions, the Rock Rose can be a prolific bloomer, and the entire bush may end up covered in the colorful one-inch flowers.
Snow in Summer
Snow in Summer (Cerastium Tomentosum) - Easy-to-grow from Snow in Summer ground cover seeds, this perennial is a great herbaceous ground cover plant which is low-growing, creeping, very dense and mat-like, and 6 - 10 inches tall by 12 - 24 inches wide.
Speedwell - Creeping
Speedwell (Veronica Repens) - Did you know about this spectacular ground clover plant? Many gardeners are familiar with the tall growing Veronicas, but often they are not so familiar with this creeping Veronica ground cover plant. Commonly called Creeping Speedwell, this is truly a low-growing ground cover plant that only reaches a height of 1 - 2 inches.
Veronica
Veronica (Veronica Spicata) - What a strong bloomer! These lovely blue blooms are easily grown from Veronica ground cover seed, and they will keep coming all summer long. Veronica Spicata has a low, compact and mat-forming habit that makes it well-suited as a ground cover plant.
Wintergreen
Wintergreen (Gaultheria Procumbens) - With a little patience, you can grow this beautiful creeping ground cover from Wintergreen ground cover seed. This perennial ground cover plant is great for shady areas with acidic soil. It is low-growing, shrub-like and spreads to 24 inches wide by stolons.
Subcategories
- • Candytuft
- • Creeping Thyme
- • Dianthus
- • Dichondra
- • Ice Plant
- • Livingstone Daisy
- • Lobelia
- • Moss Rose
- • Nierembergia
- • Nolana
- • Periwinkle
- • Prunella
- • Rock Cress
- • Saxifraga
- • Sedum
- • Sempervivum
- • Strawberry
- • Verbena
Top Ground Cover Sellers:
Candytuft - Both the annual and perennial varieties of candytuft are very good ground covers plants. Annual candtuft, if planted from seed, it begins flowering withing just a few short months with colors ranging from white to pink to purple. Perennial candytuft is a low, semiwoody, densely growing, upright-stemmed, fast growing ground cover that reaches 10" tall.
Creeping Thyme - Both our regular creeping thyme and the magic carpet creeping thyme are two of our best selling ground cover seeds. Magic carpet is sold in packets so you don't get near as much seed as buying in bulk. This seed is just too expensive as it is imported from Europe. For large areas that need planted by seed, the wild creeping thyme is more suitable for that type of an application.
Crown Vetch - This is not a low growing ground cover plant, but we have it under this link because it is used so much for an erosion control type of ground cover. Crown vetch forms a good root system and is very hardy. It is ideal on slopes that are too steep to mow where a perennial ground cover is needed.
Dichondra - Dichondra is attractive due to its beautiful dark, green foliage. It is an evergreen plant can look beautiful all year in warmer climates. It will die out with hard frosts so it does not work will in colder zones. Dichondra has broad, almost circular leaves (looks similar to clover) and when mown low establishes a thick dense carpet look. Some people actually have dichondra lawns instead of grass lawns. Used in mass plantings for a low growing ground cover plant.
Envirolawn - This can be a lawn replacement or a ground cover where mowing is not feasible. Envirolawn is a mixture of hard fescue, clover, and flowers. None of these typically grow over 1 foot tall and it can be mown to a desired height and maintained. The grass portion will grow well in shade, but the flowers need at least 4 hours of direct sunlight to flourish.
Ice Plant - Ice Plant ground cover plants produce brilliant fushia blooms in just four months from seed! This hardy, drought-tolerant plant forms a ground-hugging mat that blooms all summer long! A mainstay of the water-saving or dry-climate garden, this hardy Ice plant is a flowering ground cover that blooms for months with little to no care!
Irish Moss - The most popular ground cover seed we sell in packets. Very tiny seed so sowing properly is essential to success, but when properly planted is a wonder plant that is often sowed in between stepping stones or rocks. Use Shake 'n Seed for easy sowing. Irish Moss typically only grows 2" to 4" tall. It is one of the lowest growing ground covers that we sell.
Periwinkle - AKA vinca. For hot southern or desert climates or a hard to maintain spot near a concrete or reflecting wall, vinca is your plant! Blooms best when other plants are hurting from the heat. Very few insects or disease problems. This ground cover plant can be grown as a perennial in frost-free areas. Readily reseeds itself. Very drought tolerant.
Sedum - We offer three varieties of sedum, but only two of them (acre and dragon's blood) are typically used as ground covers. Sedum does not require much water at all even though it is shallow rooted. It like, Irish Moss, is one of the lowest growing ground covers we offer; however, sedum is more drought tolerant then Irish Moss.
Verbena - We offer several varieties of verbena sold in seed form. Moss verbena is sold by the pound and can be used for large areas where a flowering ground cover is needed. Our other verbenas are only sold in packet sizes so smaller scale operations are better suited for it.
White Dutch Clover - This is the most versatile ground cover seed we offer. It can be used for erosion control, as a ground cover, as a lawn substitute, as a cover crop, and has many other used. Typically, it will stay less the 12" tall and can be mowed and trained to stay at a lower height. Clover does not require much water and can tolerate light shade.
Wildflowers - Sunburst is our lowest growing wildflower mix that can be used as a colorful flowering ground cover plant seed. It will bloom in six to eight weeks after planting in the spring in a vast array of colors. Even though it is an annual, most of the flowers will reseed themselves and come back the following spring.
