Big Leaf Vinca

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Flowers • Tagged bloom, copyright, flower, green, ground cover, mauve, photography, purple, variegated, white • Leave a comment

A pretty violet coloured flower in the garden that looks like it’s glowing.

Periwinkle

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Flowers • Tagged blue, copyright, ground cover, petals, photography, puple, vine • 3 Comments

Close on the pretty blue purple Vinca Minor. It’s a great ground cover plant that unfortunately is non native and considered invasive in these parts.

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Flowers • Tagged Beacon Silver Lamium, Forget Me Not, ground cover, Lamium, photography • Leave a comment

Forget Me Nots and Beacon Silver Lamium make a pretty colour combination. This type of Lamium is perennial ground cover that likes my shady garden.

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Flowers • Tagged barrenwort, Epimedium, ground cover, perennial, photography • Leave a comment

The slow growing, shade-loving ground cover Epimedium is also known as Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat and Fairy Wings.