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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

Shop Alternative Lawns

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. 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'
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    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.
  2. Sempervivum arachnoideum, Cobweb Hen and Chicks

    Sempervivum arachnoideum (Cobweb Hens and Chicks) is a small-growing selection of hen and chicks that is especially lovely with its tight rosettes of cobwebbed foliage; makes an outs...

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    Cobweb Hens and Chicks Cobweb Hens and Chicks Sempervivum arachnoideum Cobweb
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    Per Plant - 2.5" Pot
    Sempervivum arachnoideum (Cobweb Hens and Chicks) is a small-growing selection of hen and chicks that is especially lovely with its tight rosettes of cobwebbed foliage; makes an outstanding rock garden plant, Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric).
  3. 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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    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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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'
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    $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.
  6. 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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