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Ground Covers and Lawn Alternatives
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.
'Lavender Ice' Plant (Delosperma x Lavender Ice)
Plant Select® 2009 Stunning iridescent, lavender flowers with dark eyes on trim green foliage mats that turn purplish in winter. A great plant for ground covers, rock gardens, and perennial beds.
Height Width Zone Watering Sun 2 to 3 inches 12 to 24 inches 4 Full Sun
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.
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!
This Proven Winners’ plant from Croatia really is a winner. Brilliant yellow tipped light green conifer shaped leaves become orange tinged during early and late season growing conditions. The 6-8 inch tall by up to 12 inch wide plant is a strong grower and is as tough as nails: successfully over wintering in rock pockets and at the edges of planters left outdoors and ignored. Use this one not only in the traditional sunny dry garden as a groundcover, edging, or accent but also in combination hanging baskets, as planter or barrel edging. Best color develops in full sun.
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.
Ice plant info: Dryland ground covers, rock garden accents, xeric garden edgings, trough plantings, all are good uses for these. They thrive in low water settings in clay and tolerate more moisture in sharp draining soils. Unlike sedum, they are not a deer or rabbit magnet and can be used on sloping sand for erosion control and around structures as part of a fire resistant landscape. Consider planting these between stepping stones in spots that seem too hot and dry for thymes.
Crystal Rivers and Turkish Veronicas and Hymenoxes scaposa are good companion plants as are the ground covers like Angelina sedum, Silverton Bluemat Penstemon, Purple Winter Savory and Greek Yarrow. Gravel is the preferred mulch around these xeric ground covers for both weed control and decorative interest. Be careful to not apply mulch over or too deeply around plant crowns.
Red Mountain Ice Plant (Delosperma dyeri ‘Psdold’)
Plant Select® 2007 Blazing scarlet flowers form a red carpet atop this 2 inch tall succulent throughout the growing season. Individual plants will become 15-20 inches wide making a striking, fire-resistant ground cover for drought tolerant xeric plantings in sand, loam or clay. For best bloom plant in full sun but partial shade is also tolerated.
Plant Select® 2002 Iridescent salmon-pink blooms top this 2 inch tall succulent that will be an 18 inch wide groundcover at maturity. Blooms and repeats slightly out of sync with Table Mountain to help extend the season of color on these carpet-like plants.
Plant Select® 1998 This upright clumping succulent produces a dome of bright pink flowers with eye-catching centers on a 4 inch tall by 10 inch wide plant. The petals have an almost metallic shimmer. Blooming starts in June and repeats until fall.
Watch this video about Partridge Feather.
Height Width Zone Watering Sun
Ground hugging 12 inch diameter circular mats of deeply cut gray-white foliage are topped by 6-10 inch tall flower stalks of cheery white blooms in late spring. Makes a good edging in a xeric or well drained garden and an accent in a rock garden. This one will not run!
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.
Mrs. Giuseppi Hens and Chicks (Sempervivum calcareum ‘Mrs. Giuseppi’) New! This is not is not your mother’s Hens and Chicks! One of the most interesting color and geometric patterns in the Hens and Chicks collection. Gray-blue leaves have eye-catching, triangular tips, each with a small rich maroon tip at the apex. Ideal for placement in tight spots in a rock garden, a ground cover, or wherever a small challenging spot needs an interesting plant.
Size Cost Standard $3.50
New! This is a perfect complement to Mrs. Giuseppi. Twilight Blues offers a large, olive-blue foliage shaded with lavender –purple tips. Mix and match!
Height Width Zone Watering Sun 4 inches 8 inches 4 Full Sun
Magic Carpet Thyme ( thymus serpyllum ‘Magic Carpet’) New! This slightly wooly growth forms a compact , low carpet of green with sweet scent of lemon. Bell Shaped blossoms for a sea of carmine-pink from May to July. Excellent for rock gardens, ground cover and between stepping stones.
This is a vining dry shade groundcover plant that is indestructible! We know as our vinca is abused with neglect yet still grows with vigor providing season long glossy green foliage with red flowers in early summer. Our vinca does well in mostly shade.
Rain Gauge Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
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'Spicy Orange’ Thyme (Thymus ‘Spicy Orange’)
Partridge Feather
Rubra Pussy Toes (Antennaria dioica ‘Rubra’) 
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.
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