Landscaping Plants
What is a garden without a touch of green in it? An integral part of garden landscaping is the addition of a lush green cover punctuated with colorful blossoms and blooms. In this article I will enlighten you on the various species and selections of plants and flora that can help to lift the look of your garden and create a visually arresting verdant façade.
Fern
First on my list is fern. You can choose from the following to give a cosmetic makeover to your yard.
- Walking fern
- Tooth wood fern
- Southern lady fern
- Sensitive fern
- Royal fern
- Leather wood fern
- Japanese painted fern
- Hay scented fern
- Ebony spleenwort fern
- Cinnamon fern
- Christmas fern
- American maidenhair fern
Vines
Another way to spice up the look of your garden is to opt for vines that will cling to a fence or some other kind of support or may climb up the side wall of your stone cottage to create a vintage Victorian look that is so English. When you add vines to your landscaping design it seems from afar as if someone has draped a lush green or colored curtain on your side wall. You can pick from the following:
- Yellow trumpet creeper
- Yellow ripple ivy
- Wild fox grape
- Virginia creeper
- Variegated mountain fleece
- Trumpet creeper Madame Galen
- Trumpet creeper Indian summer
- Trumpet creeper
- Riterkreuz ivy
- Purple winter creeper euonymus
- Passion flower
- Mini ester ivy
- Midas touch ivy
- Melanie ivy
- Lemon lace vine
- Honey suckle mandarin
- Honey suckle John Clayton
- Honey suckle gold net
- Halliana Japanese honey suckle
- Golden ingot ivy
- Gold star ivy
- Glacier ivy
- Five leaf Akebia
- English ivy
- Elegans porcelain berry vine
- Dutchmans pipe
- Duckfoot ivy
- Dropmore scarlet honey suckle vine
- Climbing hydrangea
- Boston ivy
- Blue Chinese Wisteria
- Aunt Dee Wisteria
Ground Cover
For ground cover there is an eclectic variety to choose from, such as:
- Wojos gem periwinkle
- White Nancy lamium
- Virginia creeper
- Variegated liriope
- Spicata liriope
- Silveredge Japanese spurge
- Silver mound
- Silver brocade
- Purple winter creeper Euonymus
- Pink pewter lamium
- Periwinkle
- Oriental limelight
- Orchid frost lamium
- Liriope
- Japanese spurge
- Illumination periwinkle
- Halliana Japanese honey suckle
- Green carpet Japanese spurge
- Goldilocks moneywort
- Golden moneywort
- Golden anniversary lamium
- Emerald blue phlox
- Dwarf mondo grass
- Creeping wire vine
- Chameleon plant
- Candy stripe phlox
- Buttered popcorn ranunculus
- Big leaf periwinkle
- Big ears lambs ears
- Big blue liriope
- Beacon silver lamium
- Barren strawberry