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Common Name
Common buttercup
Plant Type
Ranunculus multifidus is an excellent groundcover for a damp spot. It is very floriferous and is virtually disease free. It grows very fast and can provide cover quite quickly.
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Veld violet
Plant Type
Ruellia cordata stays compact and this groundcover looks very attractive on a rockery, interplanted with small grasses. It will tolerate some shade. Flowering season is quite long.
Botanical Name
Common Name
Veld violet
Plant Type
Ruellia patula is a perennial groundcover that produces annual, spreading shoots, from a woody rootstock. It is not an aggressive grower and makes a beautiful display as a groundcover. It prefers semi-shade.
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Satureja reptans is an aromatic, straggling, perennial herb that reaches heights between 250-600mm tall. This is a beautiful small to medium perennial herb and the flowers make for a lovely attraction. It can be used in containers or in a mixed border in a shaded area.
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Senecio reptans, a neat, little plant is the ideal groundcover for a wet spot that must be stabilised. It seeds freely.
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African Stachys
Plant Type
Stachys aethiopica is a hardy, spreading groundcover with beautiful pale green, almost quilted, leaves. It bears spikes of small, tubular flowers almost all year round that attract a myriad of tiny insects.
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Common Name
Trailing phlox
Plant Type
Sutera cordata is a hardy, evergreen, flat, creeping groundcover with attractive, round, bright little leaves and masses of small, starry white flowers all year round.
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Thunbergia neglecta usually occurs in in Grasslands or Savannah. It sprouts annually from a woody rootstock. The large flowers are very conspicuous.
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Hairy blue bells
Plant Type
Trichodesma angustifolium has pale blue flowers, turning pink with age, that cover the blue bells in springtime, especially after a fire.
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Walafrida (Selago) densiflorus is a dainty perennial with spreading branches and needle-like leaves that makes an ideal groundcover. It can handle very adverse conditions and has a very long flowering season.