If you want a more modern look, you colour tone it rather than the traditional riot of random colour that nature achieves. I don’t recommend them. At À La Fois Gardens on Auckland's North Shore, Margaretha and Terry Graham are the groundcover gurus. The tangled mass of rampant root makes digging it out difficult. Doone Valley grows to 5cm in height, has a feint lemon scent and features green and gold leaves with a purple flower. It was called a shrubbery. A free flowering Camellia with medium sized, fully double,clear rosy-pink blooms. Ground Covers; NZ Native; Shade Loving Plants; Shrubs; Sun Loving Plants; Trees; Hours & Info. Sasanqua form, great for low hedging or to train as a topiary. The blooms are softly scented. And berries might be slightly overstating the case. What the rubus lacks in fruiting capacity, it more than makes up in vigour. looking incongruous in a garden with otherwise high quality woody trees and shrubs and there were not any resident children to justify such a lapse in taste. Flowers are usually large and conspicuous, with the first flowers appearing in late winter. Now it is often regarded as a hallmark of good gardening to have no dirt showing at all – except in the vegetable garden. Happy in sun or part shade – hardy Plant in good soil with good humus/compost content. Suitable as specimen shrub, hedging and screening. Plant it with Hellebores, Heucheras, Liriopes, small growing Euphorbias such as the new, emerald green ‘Kea’, or ground covers such as Lithodora ‘Grace Ward’ or Bacopa ‘Blizzard’. Providing seed to New Zealand gardeners for 30years. I tend to blur the edges of my block plantings so that the overall look is softer and less delineated because that suits our style of gardening better. And the ornamental tradescantia is pushing its luck. If you don’t want to go the block planting route, the old fashioned cottage garden genre may be an alternative. Then there are the rampant ones which, given even a hint of an invitation, will spread at an alarming rate. We will be resorting to gyphosate to carry out the death sentence. It has spectacular black-red flowers. **By clicking on 'Register', you have read and agreed to our《Terms Of Use》 Kids are fascinated by its form, resembling miniature rolling hills. The mottled foliage of pulmonaria (with the unromantic common name of lungwort). In sunnier conditions, the sedums work well, as do coreopsis, smaller growing campanulas, phlox, asters – there is an endless list of possibilities. It put up a good number of small white flowers in spring but these translated into precious few orange berries in summer. We have another form where the foliage is glaucous – in other words, blue-grey with the same white flowers, as well as pale pink forms. It has taken me some time to get a grip on its proper name and I may soon forget it again but most of us know it as the orangeberry plant. Plant in semi-shade with acid soil for best results. From our unique Purple Pavement Rose to the eye-catching Flower Carpet Rose, our colorful selection of Groundcover Roses delivers good looks for your garden plus erosion control for problem areas. Trims well for hedging or just use singularly as a touch of colour. Contact Us Awa Nursery Mahana Road, Waimauku PO Box 170, Waimauku Phone: (09) 411 8712 Fax: (09) 411 8715 Email: info@awanursery.co.nz [divider] Online Enquiries Please use the form below to enquire via the website. It is available in seed so the plan is to order a packet next season and raise a whole lot to experiment with different locations in the hope we can get it established. It was all about trees and shrubs with little under planting. An abundance of large wavy white blooms with prominent yellow stamens appear in early autumn through to early winter. A row of alternating annuals makes a statement, though it may not be the statement the gardener is aiming for. Not even moderately tasteful white petunias cut the mustard when planted as an edging. There are no annual forget-me-nots here. Evergreen. What, you may wonder, is rubus pentalobus. When you are planting your Camellia, make sure you enrich the soil with plenty of compost and slow-release fertilizer. A bonsai camellia under threat from the thuggish rubus pentalobus. I have long since lost its name but it had pretty white cup flowers and good green, fine foliage. Not that the rubus was going to let that stop its inexorable advance. Too many and your garden looks as if it is full of cheapie plants as bulk fillers. For the same reason, I have eradicated the Orangeberry plant (Rubus pentalobus) and rampant violets. Indeed, despite my best efforts in several places in the garden, clumps of violets keep staging a come back. In times past, it was fine to plant shrubs and trees without any bottom layer at all. It stages a takeover bid, choking everything in its way. Another ground cover I can’t keep my hands off is Scleranthus Biflorus, but as opposed to a pat, I like to give this one a gentle push to feel it’s sponginess.Scleranthus is great in a rockery as it thrives with good drainage and full sun. With its supple branches, 'Moonlight' is a variety of camellia easily trained into an espalier on a fence or wall. Now we think the violets will make a more acceptable ground cover than the rubus. That punnet held six plugs, each measuring about 2.5cm across. This beautiful Camellia is … When they're not in flower, camellias make an attractive plain green backdrop for other plants. Pot 5.5lt Height 80 cm Colour Label Available The best time to prune Camellias is soon after they have flowered, before they put on their new growth. I saw something similar (maybe with pansies and alyssum?) Unlike bark and pebble mulches, ground covers can also add colour to the garden with attractive leaves or flowers. Sasanqua. Evergreen. 101 Kioreroa Road, Whangarei (next to the dog pound and behind John Deere tractors) Phone: 09 974 8733 Email: sales@alter-natives.co.nz It was confined by concrete edging on three sides and a box hedge on the fourth. Their flowers are like the roses of winter and there is no doubting the beauty of camellia flowers. Rectifying mistakes or bad decisions including eliminating invasive thugs is more localised if you are planting in blocks. Grows in … There are many to choose from – basically any plant that will hug the soil leaving very little bare soil exposed can be classed as a ground cover, whether it’s a herb, perennial or a low-growing shrub. What plant labels typically fail to mention is that, under the right growing conditions, 'Amethyst in Snow' makes a flowering ground cover that will spread nicely. The middle ground is to gently block-plant but in more interesting combinations and in less rigidly defined grids. Neo-shrubberies, maybe? An easy-to-care for ground cover, there are a few varieties of thyme to consider. 2.5m x 1.5m Surprisingly, this preoccupation is a relatively recent phenomenon. The landscaper look is to plant in sharply defined geometric blocks each comprised of only one evergreen plant. Their flowers are prettier than the rubus, too. They're adaptable to a huge range of landscape uses and fit any size or style of garden. Clivias are good, renga renga lilies are a bit untidy. Sasanqua groundcover /Weeper. The moment I turned my back, it would leap the concrete edging and get its roots into both the lawn and the gravel paths. Camellias can be grown in a shrub border, as a specimen in a pot, trained into espalier or as a hedge. Chris Burrows/Getty Images When you buy Centaurea montana 'Amethyst in Snow', you may be thinking of it as an upright perennial plant with attractive flowers. It is fully deciduous so it disappears in autumn, to reappear with renewed vigour each spring. Hardy They are hardy, evergreen plants that are fast and easy to grow. But it is not the ever so slightly disappointing harvest that had me donning the black hat to pronounce the death sentence. Back in the 1950s and 1960s ground cover plants hardly featured. This will encourage more branching (and hence more flowers) to grow close in to the main trunk. I think they have earned a recall. Even worse, and I had to visit my local garden centre to set up a photo to demonstrate, is the horror of alternating annuals in a row along the edge. First bred at Caerhays Castle in Cornwall by John Charles Williams, the best-known are New Zealand-bred ‘Debbie’ and ‘Anticipation’, ‘Donation’, while ‘Les Jury’ is an … Good for cascading down banks, filling in under trees and amongst shrubs. Words like mishmash and hodgepodge came to mind as I looked at the bottom layer of plants in otherwise perfectly competent gardens. Like his father before him, Mark has a deep distrust of plants with weed potential. A strong vigorous upright growth habit. We have tended to add violets into the category of invaders with their inclination to spread and their resilience. Wide selection of Ground Cover Flower Seeds. Keeping it covered stops dirt splash in the rain, wind blown top soil in the wind and erosion in torrential downpours. Just don’t plant the shrubs too close together or you end up with a hedge. The requirement that all garden beds and borders be layered with nary a glimpse of garden soil is relatively recent. It is difficult to describe the taste. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Hellebores are probably acceptable, as is liriope or trachelospermum. Dicentra eximia alba – a modest little plant for semi shade areas. There is even a ground cover Camellia called 'Marge Miller' with double pink flowers. You could buy it as a ground cover and ‘train it’, with a little support and judicial pruning, if you are really patient. Camellias are categorized by bloom times. Though you can also find Hybrids, Camellia Quintessence (which makes a great ground cover), and Camellia Sinensis. One of the earliest-flowering camellias. MAIN TYPES OF CAMELLIA. We use it as a ground cover in semi shaded conditions. In this class, I would put the unassuming but pretty little scuttelaria which we have in both white and blue or the obliging corylopis and a number of the ajugas. Natives like prostrate muehlenbeckia are better. Fringes of mondo grass, liriope or anything else leave me cold but edging rows of matched annuals make me raise my eyebrows. If you want ground cover, keep to perennials or seasonal bulbs and annuals is my advice. In 120 years, the rubus would have colonised the better part of Tikorangi whereas Grandma’s violets have just gently survived all competition and kept going. There is good sense to not having exposed dirt in a garden. For those looking to purchase a new camellia, there are two main types of camellias used in gardening in New Zealand. Sep 15, 2019 - Alternanthera ficoidea growing instruction & requirement Alternanthera ficoidea info: climate, zone, growth speed, water, light, planting season & colors Prefers a sheltered site in semi-shade. A small leaved, compact dwarf camellia with petite, white peony-like flowers in autumn. Over the years, we have bought fine looking plants in full leaf and flower on several occasions but they fail entirely to reappear the second year. Herbs 3; Other Uses 3; Ground Cover 3; Flower Use. I once bought a punnet of such a plant which looked promising. You are going to have to imagine it because I know the garden owners so I was not going to whip out m’camera and take photos of the worst examples to embarrass them in the newspaper and on line. (Blooming periods can vary for warmer or cooler locations.) I don’t want lemon balm either. No. This particular dicentra hails from USA where it is widespread because it is not at all picky about temperatures. Keep them mulched with a 10cm layer, keeping the mulch away from the trunk. If you want to reduce maintenance, mulch with something anonymous like compost or bark chip instead and bypass the ground cover altogether. Camellias are the all-purpose all-season plant. Hybrid. Sasanquas (Camellia sasanqua) bloom early to mid season, Japonicas (Camellia japonica) from mid to late season, and hybrids can be either. What I noticed about the under planting was how badly it was done in a couple of gardens. It also has advantages in making maintenance easier to group plants which require more frequent care – such as dead heading, staking, dividing, or grooming. We have a wonderful swathe of old fashioned perennial impatiens (busy lizzies) which have kept on keeping on for decades in frost free woodland conditions. I am less keen on the widely used catmint (nepeta) which I regard as too strong a grower and essentially boring. [contactform email=mark@paragondesign.co.nz] [divider] Location Map Click here for a location map Click here to view on Google Maps For containers, 'Night Rider' is a good choice, with its slow growth rate and attractive red new growth. I think the entire crop was two each so the best I can say is fruity, in moderation. Camellia Marge Miller. I remember it as a common garden plant from my Dunedin childhood. ‘Marge Miller’, this is a Camellia sasanqua ground cover or prostrate camellia it is also available as a grafted weeping standard. Evergreen. I am far more comfortable with that approach and it makes gardening interesting to play with different combinations. We currently have 50 Camellia hybrids to choose from. Small, formal double flowers cover the shrub from late winter. There is no doubt that if the upper layers of the garden are varied and mixed, some sort of unity in the bottom layer creates a more harmonious picture. There are ground covers and there are G-R-O-U-N-D C-O-V-E-R-S. Sasanqua. Originated from Southern Asia.In New Zealand camellias are grown as ornamental plants for their flowers. Camellia Japonica. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. One can be striking but don’t turn your back on it and allow for the fact that every one needs at least a metre and a half of space. Contact Us Awa Nursery Mahana Road, Waimauku PO Box 170, Waimauku Phone: (09) 411 8712 Fax: (09) 411 8715 Email: info@awanursery.co.nz [divider] Online Enquiries Please use the form below to enquire via the website. One of NZ's favourite Camellias and deservedly so. Perfect for low foot traffic areas, thyme is soft to walk on, looks great, and can help you keep the weeds down. An important hybrid is Camellia x williamsii, resulting from crosses of C. japonica and C. saluenensis. In small gardens, Camellia ‘Classique’ makes an appealing focal point among ground cover plants, annuals and low growing perennials. Although presented in the form of a patio tree or staked to three feet tall, this Australian introduction is the first prostrate Camellia in the world. I had a day out and about looking at gardens recently and I was struck by the nature of under planting, though this preoccupation may have had more to do with my thoughts at the time. Surprisingly, this preoccupation is a relatively recent phenomenon. We tried Sweet Emily Kate and very soon discovered the drawbacks. Plant orders are no longer being shipped and will resume from 5th January 2021 This is a more slender Camellia that has red, new growth. aka Camellia . It should look classier than the row of alternating annuals. Camellia 'Buttons and Bows' has lovely formal double flowers in shades of soft pink, looks fabulous as a standard or a column. Don't get caught out by new fishing rules - get the app, Northland's fire service ablaze with strong representation of women, Council to tap legal powers for pipeline, Home bakers can turn passion into career with new baking course, Lowered tunnel and new bridges among works done, Revealed: 2020's most expensive home and its All Black billionaire owners, Fire destroys luxury boat in minutes in the Bay of Islands. If you’re looking for ground cover plants for clay soil in NZ, then New Zealand Daphne will come to the rescue. I know this because I have been asked for it but have not seen it yet. We Have Shrubs Of Different Variety Like Azalea, Camelia, Viburnum & Grevillea. Essentially this is a jostle of perennials, annuals and bulbs in combination with small shrubs, often roses, where self seeding is encouraged. Added to that, after only two years, the ground is such a mat of congested roots that it is near impenetrable and the rubus is even threatening to overpower my valued camellia specimens. Their invasive tendencies are not too serious. More often it is best viewed in passing, rather than looking at the detail. Bear with me, dear readers. Camellias make good dense hedges; 'Setsugekka' is a popular sasanqua often planted as a hedge, use 'Paradise Joan' if you're after a rich Watermelon red with gold stamens, and, with its slow dense growth, 'Yuletide' is perfect for a shorter hedge. Newly-planted Camellias will need to be watered in dry periods with a thorough soaking every 4-5 days. For standardising or topiary, try 'Volcano' or 'Brushfields Yellow', with their upright form. As tough evergreen shrubs with attractive foliage, camellias provide structure and substance to the garden all year round and can be grown with ease in a wide range of climates. First published in the Waikato Times and reprinted here with their permission. It forms rhizomes at or just below the soil level. I would argue that the flip side of the coin is also true: if your upper layers are rigidly conformist and consist of restrained plantings of only one or two different plants, ringing the changes with more complex and varied under plantings will make it a great deal more interesting. It makes a superb groundcover, spilling over walls or even from a hanging basket. Every square centimetre of their 2.4ha property is neatly manicured – Terry is a … Meri Kirihimete me te Hape Nū Ia! My rubus pentalobus is under a death sentence. I mentioned last week about my mother’s gardening mantra being ground cover which focussed my mind on the case for ground cover plants. And somebody has apparently released a “ground cover” michelia. It is certainly easier to maintain than more complex plantings. Though if anyone has a large clay cliff they wish to retain, a precipice perhaps, a landslip or maybe a large stretch of coastal erosion which they were thinking of retaining with concrete slabs, this plant may be just the ticket. It took me two years to get rid of it entirely, all the time muttering that the people who propagated that plant for sale should be lined up and shot. The flowers are little heart shaped pouches and feed the bees, particularly the humble bumbles. In fact I think they are a relic of his great grandmother’s garden from the late 1800s. A simple, sweet, easy to grow Camellia that is ideal for screens and hedging. Groundcover Roses for Growing. I am guessing that in its native Taiwan it may produce more fruit but it has the reputation of being very reluctant in this country. Indeed, Mark just looked incredulous when we spotted the first fruit. Quite stunning in full bloom. I much prefer the mottled foliage and pretty flowers of the pulmonaria which fill a similar niche. As nature abhors a vacuum, mulch all the bare earth with something anonymous or you will grow a carpet of weeds. You have been warned. But in a world not short of spectacular blooms, camellias offer so much more. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! The pretty Dicentra spectabilis or Bleeding Heart with its dear little pink to red heart flowers hanging all down the stems is from Northern China, Japan and far eastern Russia – all places where it will get a good winter chill. Camellia 'Buttons and Bows' has lovely formal double flowers in shades of soft pink, looks fabulous as a standard or a column. Or use a special Camellia fertilizer for acid soil-loving plants. These certainly make a statement in the garden, though it may not be the statement that the gardener thinks when he or she plants them. It is also a great deal more attractive than the liverwort that colonises uncultivated ground in shaded areas. Maybe it is time to start a movement called The Shrubbery Revival. Keep this plant controlled and under close supervision. Bergenia ciliata and Siberian irises – this gardener’s version of block planting. To help you make the right choice for your space the differences are: Camellia … Also suitable for topairy work, looking good trimmed as a cone in pots. In other words, they had good upper layers of larger plants but when it came to the bottom layer of ground covers and under plantings, the selection criterion seemed solely that the plant should not reach more than 30cm in height. Many new releases in the Camellia world are hybrids, some of which have been bred right here in New Zealand. Within one season, each of those plugs measured a metre across. Happiest semi-shade and acid soil. CAMELLIAS. Best Bloom Sequence. Back in the 1950s and 1960s ground cover plants hardly featured. A good thick layer of something, be it plant or mulch, can cut down on the germination of weed seeds lurking in the soil because it reduces the amount of sunshine and light that most need. There are two main species of Camellias commonly grown in New Zealand, Camellia Japonica and Camellia Sasanqua. When trained on a stake or wall, it will cascade down for a lovely, weeping shape. They flower (depending on variety) from early autumn through to spring, adding much needed colour to your winter garden. While most camellia sasanquas can be used in a woodland setting, as a specimen plant or even as a complete border and privacy screen, this new prostrate form is the first ever sasanqua that can be used as a ground cover, even weeping over walls. Although they have a bad rap for being messy (Any heavy flowering plant with masses of gorgeous blooms is going to be a wee bit messy at the end of flowering), camellias flower reliably and heavily, year after year with little attention. Those particular triffids are now on the banned list in this country, as far as I know – the enormous rhubarb plants. It’s also beautiful and produces stunning flowers with a mild scent of honey. I would guess that it has the potential to turn up on Regional Council’s banned list sooner rather than later. Bred by Les Jury of NZ. Nice dark green foliage that clips well. Ground Cover 3; Height. CONTACT US. Taranaki Rhododendron and Garden Festival. We call it the ABG syndrome after we heard somebody’s garden described as being a case of Another Bloody Gunnera. Some modest little ones never get ideas above their station and just gently colonise an area, spreading in a quiet and acceptable manner. Camellia Japonica varieties and Camellia Sasanqua varieties, there is also a number of hybrids available. Pretty ‘double pink flowers’ and nice dark green glossy foliage. They are hardy, evergreen and have many sizes and shapes suitable for many … It’s a ground cover plant that originates from coastal dunes, so it’s used to a hard life. . Charming they may be, but they did not earn their common name lightly. Rampant seeders, subversive clumpers, overpowering thugs – no matter how pretty, such plants are not welcome. They flower for 10 months of the year and require next to no attention. 5cm to 45cm 2; 50cm to 95cm 0; 100cm to 200cm 0; Over 200cm 0; Categories. Combine it with spring bulbs which flower first and as their foliage gets tatty after flowering, the fresh dicentra will mask it. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Cordyline Red Fountain & other miscellaneous Jury-bred plants. It is moderately poisonous to stock which is how it comes by its common name in USA of staggerweed, but that is not a problem in a garden situation. Choose the right flower seeds for your purpose. I will not be digging the rubus to pot up and sell. We are extremely cautious about the triffids too. Maintaining a large garden is a delicate balancing act at the best of times without allowing rampant colonisers to escape. Ideal for hedging.Happiest in semi-shade. Nor am I a fan of edging plants, or indeed anything planted in rows other than proper hedges or vegetables, but that is a matter of style and personal taste. HOW TO GROW Camellias originate from China, Japan and Southeast Asia. I was optimistic with the second season and a solid mat of it in a hot, sunny position. Even dense, older trees can be revitalised and made more elegant by thinning out branches and pruning 'so a bird can fly through'. Spending several hours every couple of months trying to thin and contain the plant does not seem worth the effort to me. Mostly it is about packing the garden with layers of plants, each lower layer masking the stems and trunks of the taller ones while down the bottom is some low but strong growing ground hugger. Flowers from early autumn onwards. Buy Now! That seems altogether irresponsible. And there was one of this, one of that and one of the other, bunged in higgledy piggledy in most spaces. Knowing that it could be a little rampant, I used it in a defined border where I wanted the unity of a single ground cover to set off a little collection of topiaried camellias. It was all about trees and shrubs with little under planting. 2. We used to sell pretty little weeping camellias (Sweet Emily Kate and Quintessence) which, if not trained upright, would become ground cover. Each shrub needs to stand in its own space. Then, of course, you could ask yourself whether under planting is even necessary in some areas. The flowers are single and white with a strong blush of pink. Pimelea Prostrata - New Zealand Daphne . Acanthus mollis or bears’ breeches springs to mind as a good example. For those who find using perennials offputting, the permanence of ground cover shrubs sometimes appeals, especially flowering shrubs. Check Out More Variety In Our Online Store Today. And down in the paddock is a clump which Mark refers to as Grandma’s violets. Perfect for low foot traffic areas, thyme is soft to walk on, looks great, and can help you keep the weeds down. It is a ground cover plant, marketed widely in recent years with a key selling point of producing edible fruit. To keep a Camellia confined to a tight space, prune each year after flowering to shorten the side branches. Certainly they were orange but at little larger than a glass pin head and held singly, berries seemed an unjustifiably generous descriptor. [contactform email=mark@paragondesign.co.nz] [divider] Location Map Click here for a location map Click here to view on Google Maps Plant a variety for blooms from November through June. If you like a tidy garden which is weed free, it is not an easy style to manage well. I mentioned last week about my mother’s gardening mantra being ground cover which focussed my mind on the case for ground cover plants. There is nowhere for the spent flowers to drop to so all that happens is that slushy blooms and other garden debris sits on top of the plant, needing frequent picking over by hand. I have never seen anything spread so alarmingly. But, ground cover shrubs in a mixed planting? The contemporary look is to plant in blocks. Fertilize after pruning – they like organic fertilizers such as Roksolid or sheep pellets, which will also build the humus in the soil. Endless plant lists without photos make dull reading, but I will offer up a very short list of recommended, well behaved ground cover plants which have proven their worth here and should be readily available. In shade areas, it is hard to go past hostas, farfugiums and ligularias but also the francoas (sonchifolia and ramosa- the Chilean bridal wreath flowers) and phlomis. These are the large growing perennials which spread and choke out much in their path, seeding their way through the garden. Early: October to December Mid-season: January to March An easy-to-care for ground cover, there are a few varieties of thyme to consider. Doone Valley grows to 5cm in height, has a feint lemon scent and features green and gold leaves with a purple flower. They have many different shapes, colours and perfumes. Let them into your garden and it takes years to stop them seeding everywhere. I could cope with that, but its inclination to weasel its way through the buxus and even climb started to ring alarm bells. The foliage is technically described as finely cut and divided which means it looks ferny or maybe feathery. 56 … Evergreen. It will probably look more attractive than the hodge podge assemblage of random plants I saw. Ground covers that can moonlight as climbers are a worry. 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