8 Easy Ground Covers To Grow In Full Sun Or Shade

Asian Star Jasmine:

Tough, fast-spreading evergreen ground cover with creamy-yellow flowers, tolerant of heat, humidity, and well-drained soils.

Moss Pink (Creeping Phlox):

Produces spectacular blooms in blue, red, pink, or white, forming spreading mats ideal for edging flower beds or rock gardens.

Blue Catmint:

Drought-tolerant ground cover emitting a lemon scent, attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, suitable for edging beds or walls.

Creeping Juniper:

Low-to-the-ground shrub with dark green, yellow-green, or blue-green foliage, ideal for planting on slopes.

Creeping Thyme:

Popular ground cover for dry areas, grown for dainty pink, purple, or magenta flowers, perfect for gaps between stepping stones.

Plumbago:

Enthusiastic spreader with true blue summer flowers, turning coppery red in fall, requiring full sun and well-drained soil.

Siberian Cypress:

Evergreen, low-growing shrub with feathery foliage turning coppery bronze in autumn, cold-hardy and adaptable to poor soils.

Sweet Alyssum:

Fast-growing ground cover with four-petal flowers, easy to grow from seeds, considered invasive in some regions.