 |
| |
|
Ground Covers and Lawn Alternatives
Plant Select® 2004 Lovely trailing herb 18-24 inches wide by 10-15 inches tall. Lavender and chartreuse bi-color lantern-shaped bracts form throughout the summer months drying to brown in fall. Best suited to raised beds, rock gardens or containers. Plant in well-drained garden loam, clay or sandy soil. This is an eye catcher for all who see it! Oh, and the smell of oregano! Attracts bees to help pollinate your garden. Avoid too much reflected heat.
New! This is a highly aromatic herb that's great in the kitchen - think salsa and chili dishes. A standout in the mixed sunny garden with green rounded foliage with pink summer flowers (July).
Size Cost Standard $4.00  Italian Oregano
(Origanum majorana)
New! This is a true annual for Wyoming - but here is your chance to grow this wonderful culinary herb for your Italian dishes! Think container growing or in the vertical garden. A great gift for the chef in your life! Blooms white flowers in July.
Plant Select 2001. A real eye catcher! It’s vivid green foliage is topped with glowing orange-scarlet flowers from July to frost! Hummingbirds will be drawn to tubular flowers. It is cascading in growth habit, so place it to the front of the garden bed and watch the show. A bit of afternoon shade makes this plant thrive and bloom the most. Natively found on the far west side of Wyoming. Click Here to watch our VIDEO about this great plant!
This is so new it doesn’t even have a trade name except to be called “rock clematis”, a 2006 GreatPlants release. Not every clematis was meant to grow on a trellis. Small, umbrella - shaped flowers of violet and pale blue against rich green foliage is striking! A native of the Rocky Mountains. Excellent in rock gardens or other well drained beds.
Rubra Pussy Toes (Antennaria dioica ‘Rubra’)
This is an improved cultivar of Wyoming’s pussy toes. This is an attractive ground cover plant found throughout sunny mountain slopes. Foliage is silvery-white and low to the ground, in June pink buds that resemble a kittens paw emerge followed by blossoms of white flowers. Great for sunny, hot and dry locations including rock gardens and troughs. Does best in sharp draining soils.
 Seafoam Artemisia (Artemisia versicolor)
Plant Select® 2004 Finely filigreed silver-gray foliage gives a frothy appearance on a mound that will spread to nearly 3 feet wide and up to 18 inches tall. Never floppy due to the plants’ woody underpinnings. Wonderful year-round textural accent plant for xeric gardens. Rabbit and Deer resistant. Click Here to watch our VIDEO of Seafoam Artemisia.
Silky Fleece Lambs Ear (Stachys byzantina ‘Silky Fleece’)
This is a new lamb’s ear with lilac-plum flowers on 10 inch stems above short to the ground silvery-green, wooly low foliage, excellent cushion forming ground cover. For those of you not familiar with lamb’s ear – this is a plant you’ll love to pick just to feel the softness of its leaves brushed across your cheek! Great kid’s plant, rock garden and ground cover.
A choice, vigorous multi-purpose hardy landscape plant. Whether as a replacement for lawn, as a rock garden accent, or as a garden edging you will like the way this one winters and how it tastes when harvested for culinary use.
This slightly wooly growth forms a compact, low carpet of green with sweet scent of lemon. Bell shaped blossoms form a sea of carmine-pink from May to July. Excellent for rock gardens, ground cover and between stepping stones.
New! This is a fast growing thyme with a spicy nutmeg aroma! Indeed, place this one between stepping stones and enjoy the fragrance as it handles moderate foot traffic. Small purple flowers in June top the the nutmeg scented green leaves.
Size Cost Standard $4.00
Massed, small pale pink flowers provide Butterfly food in early summer. Light foot traffic is tolerated and releases strong spicy-orange fragrance from the evergreen plants with needle-shaped leaves. Plant in Sun.
Ground hugging cushion of wool-gray foliage, 1 foot diameter, with purple flowers in summer. Tolerates winter exposure better than many thymes. Great for light foot traffic and handles partial shade. A reliable choice for planting rock walls, as it will spill over the edge with the least winter die-back.
Plant Select® 2003 A wonderful little perennial that has proved itself in Casper through five drought years if you count under its former name before it became Plant Select! One plant forms 4 inch x 18 inch mat of glossy dark green foliage with deep blue flowers in summer. This hybrid cross of wooly and Turkish speedwell is better than either parent! Click Here to watch our VIDEO of Crystal Rivers Veronica.
Turkish Veronica (Veronica liwanensis)Plant Select® 1997 Cobalt blue flowers cover the mat-forming glossy green leaved groundcover in late spring to early summer. Plant this Zone 4 low water groundcover, accent or edging in full to part sun.
New! 2000 GreatPlants! This Great Plains native forms a ground hugging mound 3 feet wide. This one produces sparkling white wine cup blooms. A great contrast to prairie wine cups!
Plant Select® 1999 This low growing native prairie plant blooms repeatedly during summer in bright burgundy cup-shaped flowers with white eyes on low arching stems with dark green deeply cut leaves. Flowers and foliage are reminiscent of Cranesbill Geraniums on this Poppy Mallow but at less than 1 foot tall and up to 3feet in diameter, the form is not. The only drawback to keeping this darling besides drowning in wet clay is that rabbits munch too much during those years of cottontail population explosions. Plant in soil that drains, or in clay kept on the dry side, taking care to seat the plant at grade and not in a low spot.
Rain Gauge Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
Home | Ordering-Terms & Conditions |Privacy Policy | Contact Us
|
Hopflower Oregano (Origanum libanoticum) 
Hot and Spicy Oregano (Oregano vulgare 'Hot and Spicy') 
Orange Carpet Hummingbird Trumpet (Zauschneria garretti ‘Orange Carpet’) 
Rock Clematis
Magic Carpet Thyme ( thymus serpyllum ‘Magic Carpet’)
Nutmeg Thyme ( Thymus praecox 'Nutmeg') 
Poppy Mallow 'Prairie Wine Cups'(Callirhoe involucrata)
These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant death.
Wyoming Plant Company, LLC Copyright ©2011 Wyoming Plant Company. All rights reserved. |