Botanical Name
Plant Type
Platycarpha glomerata gives the impression of a thistle due to its spiny rosette of leaves. However, it flowers in the crown of the rosette. It does best in a damp spot.
Botanical Name
Common Name
Speckled spur-flower
Plant Type
Plectranthus ciliatus is an outstanding fairly hardy, evergreen groundcover with attractive maroon-purple leaves and stems. It makes an excellent groundcover and container plant for lightly shaded areas.
Botanical Name
Common Name
Thicket Spur-flower
Plant Type
Plectranthus madagascariensis is a semi-succulent, aromatic, perennial herb that reaches heights between 0.4-1m tall. This specimen is ideal for mass planting and makes for a beautiful showy groundcover in sunny or semi-shade areas.
Botanical Name
Common Name
Cliff spur-flower, Chameleon-spurflower
Plant Type
Plectranthus mutabilis is a semi-succulent perennial herb that can grow up to 0.3m. This specimen is a lovely groundcover and has a matt forming habit, it is ideal for a garden bed as a groundcover or to be planted in containers, pots or raised bed in semi-shade to shaded positions.
Botanical Name
Common Name
Lobster flower
Plant Type
Plectranthus neochillus is an attractive groundcover with grey-green, succulent leaves and a pungent smell when bruised. The beautiful deep blue to purple flowers are borne on a terminal inflorescence of lobster-like flowers.
Botanical Name
Common Name
Purple-leaved spurflower, cliff spurflower
Plant Type
Plectranthus purpuratus is an erect spreading herb with dark green fleshy leaves that is often purplish below. This beautiful, small showy plant is ideal for rockeries, containers or as a groundcover in a shady position. Height hardly exceeds 30cm.
Botanical Name
Common Name
Gossip plant
Plant Type
Plectranthus verticilatus is a fairly hardy, evergreen, creeping, fast growing groundcover with soft, fleshy, round leaves. . The spikes of white-mauve flowers attract a whole host of butterflies and insects.
Botanical Name
Common Name
Dwarf porkbush
Plant Type
Low growing drought resistant succulent groundcover that grows in full sun, is used to stabilise soil.
Botanical Name
Plant Type
Portulacaria afra "prostrata" is a fairly hardy, pretty, succulent groundcover is a variety of Portulacaria afra. They look great cascading down a rockery.Plant it in well-drained soil.
Botanical Name
Common Name
Bog buttercup
Plant Type
Ranunculus dregei is a small perennial herb with trailing stems, that creeps by runners, often rooted in water. It is a lovely specimen for a mixed border in that wet spot in the garden. It prefers a cooler climate.