Groundcover Specifications
- Season: Perennial
- USDA Zones: 7 - 11
- Height: 4 inches
- Width: 12 - 18 inches
- Bloom Season: Early spring to early fall
- Bloom Color: Pink
- Environment: Full sun to partial shade
- Foot Traffic: Light
Planting Directions
- Temperature: 70 - 75F
- Average Germ Time: 21 - 60 days
- Light Required: Yes
- Depth: Surface sow and lightly cover 1/16 inch
- Soil Type: Grows in a variety of soil types from sandy loams to clay
- Sowing Rate: Approximately 1000 seeds covers 20 square feet
- Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination
- Plant Spacing: 12 - 18 inches
- Note: For detailed directions for indoor and outdoor planting, please Click Here
- Care & Maintenance: See: Polygonum
Pinkhead Smartweed (Polygonum Capitatum Punching Balls) - 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.
Polygonum is a wonderful low growing 4 inch creeper with gorgeous burgundy tinted foliage and lovely coral pink flowers in dense globes from April to October. A terrific ground cover, it also an outstanding performer in rock gardens and hanging baskets. Winter hardy to zone 7, but can be grown as an annual in cooler zones where it often reseeds and comes back year after year anyway.
Shaker Bottle With Seed Starting Matrix |
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Shake 'n Seed - We are now offering shaker bottles filled with our seed starting matrix: rich soil, gardening sand, water absorbing crystals, and starter fertilizer. This not only helps dispense your seed, but it gets it off to a great start! Simply remove lid from shaker bottle, add seed from packet, put back on lid, shake the bottle vigorously for 15 seconds, and then shake your way to beautiful new plants! Use Shake 'n Seed over good quality soil, and then gently water to keep seed moist until it sprouts. Great for ground covers or mass planting flower seeds. |
