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Pink Chintz Thyme Lawn - Albuquerque, NM

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Create an alternative lawn by carpeting your landscape with colorful, low-care groundcovers. These low-growing perennials are an indispensable part of any well-well designed garden and are perfect for replacing areas of lawn, large and small, especially difficult-to-mow hillsides. Use them as a “living mulch” to cool the ground and suppress weed growth or for filling in spaces between flagstones and pavers. Knowing and understanding their tolerance to foot traffic is a key element in deciding what are the right groundcovers for your needs. Read about Groundcovers You Can Step On and Creating A Thyme Lawn.

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Pink Chintz Thyme Lawn - Albuquerque, NM

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Create an alternative lawn by carpeting your landscape with colorful, low-care groundcovers. These low-growing perennials are an indispensable part of any well-well designed garden and are perfect for replacing areas of lawn, large and small, especially difficult-to-mow hillsides. Use them as a “living mulch” to cool the ground and suppress weed growth or for filling in spaces between flagstones and pavers. Knowing and understanding their tolerance to foot traffic is a key element in deciding what are the right groundcovers for your needs. Read about Groundcovers You Can Step On and Creating A Thyme Lawn.

To choose the best plants for your garden, use our filters at left.

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  1. Alternative Lawn Wildflower Seed Mix

    Sick of mowing your lawn? Looking for an environmentally friendly alternative? This mix is the perfect combination of wildflowers, grasses and groundcovers specifically formulated ...

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    Alternative Lawn Wildflower Seed Mix Alternative Lawn Wildflower Seed Mix
    As low as $29.99
    Per 1/4 Pound
    Sick of mowing your lawn? Looking for an environmentally friendly alternative? This mix is the perfect combination of wildflowers, grasses and groundcovers specifically formulated to provide color and soil stabilization. A unique blend of 13 varieties, this mix provides an easy to grow, diverse mix that makes the perfect alternative to lawn.
  2. Microclover Low-Water Lawn Seed Mix

    Our Microclover Low-Water Lawn Seed Mix is a sustainable lawn solution that includes Low Work & Water Dwarf Fescue Grass Seed and Microclover Seeds. It will quickly green up in sprin...

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    Microclover & Low-Water Lawn Seed Mix Microclover Low-Water Lawn Seed Mix Microclover & Low-Water Lawn Seed Mix
    As low as $39.99
    Per 1 Pound
    Our Microclover Low-Water Lawn Seed Mix is a sustainable lawn solution that includes Low Work & Water Dwarf Fescue Grass Seed and Microclover Seeds. It will quickly green up in spring, and stays greens all season, even in hot, dry weather. This mix will create a durable and dense, yet soft and comfortable surface that’s excellent for high traffic areas. This low-maintenance mix has excellent resistance to diseases and pests, and eliminates any need for herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers. Once established, your low-growing lawn will need little to no watering or mowing. Tolerates shade and suitable for a wide range of the US. Exclusively available from High Country Gardens.
  3. Dry Area Wildflower Seed Mix, Alyssum, Cosmos, Coreopsis, Red Poppy

    A customer favorite for over 25 years, this special blend of wildflowers will do very well in dry, well-drained soils. Popular in coastal areas or sandy soil conditions, this mix con...

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    Dry Area Wildflower Seed Mix Dry Area Wildflower Seed Mix
    As low as $17.99
    Per 1/4 Pound
    A customer favorite for over 25 years, this special blend of wildflowers will do very well in dry, well-drained soils. Popular in coastal areas or sandy soil conditions, this mix contains 25 hardy wildflower varieties. Flowers from the annual wildflowers will begin in around just 6 weeks and last all season long with 14 annual species for first-year blooms and 11 perennial varieties for lasting flowers for years to come.
  4. Little Prairie Native Wildflower Seed Mix

    Restore a piece of the prairie with our Little Prairie Native Wildflower Seed Mix, featuring hardy native wildflowers and grasses. Above ground, the plants provide habitat for butter...

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    Little Prairie Native Wildflower Seed Mix Little Prairie Native Wildflower Seed Mix
    As low as $24.99
    Per 1/4 Pound
    Restore a piece of the prairie with our Little Prairie Native Wildflower Seed Mix, featuring hardy native wildflowers and grasses. Above ground, the plants provide habitat for butterflies, birds, and beneficial insects, with colorful wildflowers in bloom from spring to fall. Below ground, deep root help filter water, improve soil health, sequester carbon, and prevent erosion. Plant this mix and enjoy watching pollinators and birds fly from flower to flower, with wildflowers and grasses swaying gently in the breeze.
  5. Native Dry Area Wildflower Seed Mix

    Our Native Dry Area Wildflower Seed Mix is a hardy mix of native annual and perennial wildflowers that thrive in dry, well-drained soils. This all-native wildflower mix is an excelle...

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    Native Dry Area Wildflower Seed Mix Native Dry Area Wildflower Seed Mix
    As low as $34.99
    Per 1/4 Pound
    Our Native Dry Area Wildflower Seed Mix is a hardy mix of native annual and perennial wildflowers that thrive in dry, well-drained soils. This all-native wildflower mix is an excellent solution for dry meadows, lawn replacement, and xeriscapes where you want to create a habitat-friendly planting for pollinators, birds, and wildlife. Once established, this colorful mix of drought-resistant wildflowers will bloom from spring all the way through mid-fall.
  6. Superbloom Native Wildflower Seed Mix

    Our Superbloom Native Wildflower Seed Mix is inspired by the phenomenon of sweeping hillsides painted with flower petals. Bring that beauty to your home with this easy-to-grow wildfl...

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    Superbloom Native Wildflower Seed Mix Superbloom Native Wildflower Seed Mix
    As low as $19.99
    Per 1/4 Pound
    Our Superbloom Native Wildflower Seed Mix is inspired by the phenomenon of sweeping hillsides painted with flower petals. Bring that beauty to your home with this easy-to-grow wildflower mix, including famous California Poppies, Lupines, and more. Butterflies and bees will appreciate the nectar supply from spring to summer. Though Superblooms are famous on the west coast, this wildflower seed mix can be grown in most soil types for a spectacular backyard show.
  7. Partial Shade Wildflower Seed Mix

    The Partial Shade Seed mix provides a large mix of shade tolerant annuals and perennials for partially sunny areas of your landscape and garden....

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    Partial Shade Wildflower Seed Mix Partial Shade Wildflower Seed Mix
    As low as $17.99 Sale $17.99
    Per 1/4 Pound
    The Partial Shade Seed mix provides a large mix of shade tolerant annuals and perennials for partially sunny areas of your landscape and garden.
  8. Old Man's Bones Stonecrop, Sedum globosum 'Old Man Bones', Image courtesy of Conservation Garden Park

    Sedum globosum ‚Old Man‚s Bones‚ (Stonecrop) is an outstanding low-growing sedum with uniquely rounded, chubby leaves held on short spreading stems. Evergreen succ...

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    Old Man's Bones Sedum Old Man's Bones Sedum Sedum globosum 'Old Man's Bones'
    As low as $11.99 Sale $8.39
    Per Plant - 5" Deep Pot
    Sedum globosum 'Old Man's Bones' (Stonecrop) is an outstanding low-growing sedum with uniquely rounded, chubby leaves held on short spreading stems. Evergreen succulent foliage often develops a bronze tint in summer and flushes shades of purple, pink, red, and bronze over the winter. Perfect for groundcover, rock gardens, edging pathways, and spilling over the edges of raised beds or containers. It blooms in summer with clusters of small, bright yellow, star-shaped flowers.
  9. Green Lavender Cotton, Santolina rosmarinifolia

    Green Santolina (Santolina rosmarinifolia) is a Mediterranean herb with fine aromatic foliage that resembles Rosemary. The plant is covered with showy yellow button-shaped flowers in...

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    Green Santolina Green Lavender Cotton Santolina rosmarinifolia
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    $12.99 Sale $9.09
    Per Plant - 5" Deep Pot
    Green Santolina (Santolina rosmarinifolia) is a Mediterranean herb with fine aromatic foliage that resembles Rosemary. The plant is covered with showy yellow button-shaped flowers in mid to late spring. The mounding evergreen foliage is an attractive groundcover that’s completely deer and rabbit resistant, and the fragrant foliage and flowers can also be used in sachets. Ideal for gardens with hot, dry summers, and full sun.
  10. Lemon Fizz Lavender Cotton, Santolina virens 'Lemon Fizz'

    ‚Lemon Fizz‚ Santolina (Santolina virens) has fine, almost mossy-looking foliage in an eye-catching chartreuse color. The compact mounding foliage is evergreen and produc...

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    Lemon Fizz Santolina Lemon Fizz Lavender Cotton Santolina virens 'Lemon Fizz'
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    $13.99 Sale $9.79
    Per Plant - 5" Deep Pot
    'Lemon Fizz' Santolina (Santolina virens) has fine, almost mossy-looking foliage in an eye-catching chartreuse color. The compact mounding foliage is evergreen and produces bright yellow button-shaped flowers in summer. It thrives in full, hot sun, but demands a sandy, dry growing site once established. It’s a bit cold-tender and is recommended as a container-grown plant for use around the patio when planted away from the West Coast.
  11. Spring Carpet Mount Atlas Daisy, Anacyclus depressus 'Spring Carpet'

    ‚Spring Carpet‚ Mount Atlas Daisy (Anacyclus depressus) is a wonderful early-spring-blooming groundcover. Blooming with cheerful white daisies, its petals feature strikin...

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    Spring Carpet Mount Atlas Daisy (Anacyclus) Spring Carpet Mount Atlas Daisy Anacyclus depressus 'Spring Carpet'
    Sale Price I Save 30%
    $11.99 Sale $8.39
    Per Plant - 5" Deep Pot
    'Spring Carpet' Mount Atlas Daisy (Anacyclus depressus) is a wonderful early-spring-blooming groundcover. Blooming with cheerful white daisies, its petals feature striking red undersides, adding a bit of contrast and detail to the perennial garden. Fern-like grey-green foliage creates an attractive mat. Well-suited to alpine and rock gardens, the plants thrive in dry, sunny, poor soil locations, especially along gravel paths.
  12. Splendens Sea Thrift, Armeria maritima 'Splendens'

    ‚Splendens‚ Armeria (Armeria maritima), also called Sea Thrift, is a popular selection covered with a profusion of rose-pink flower clusters that bounce atop stiff stems ...

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    Splendens Armeria Splendens Sea Thrift Armeria maritima 'Splendens'
    $10.99
    Per Plant - 5" Deep Pot
    'Splendens' Armeria (Armeria maritima), also called Sea Thrift, is a popular selection covered with a profusion of rose-pink flower clusters that bounce atop stiff stems and are favored by honeybees. This low-growing perennial forms a tidy mat of grassy evergreen foliage. Don’t let its playful form fool you – Armeria is a highly rugged, low-maintenance native plant well-suited for hot, dry locations and coastal gardens.
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