What kind of ground cover do you reccomend?
Hypericum calicinum has beautiful yellow flowers much of the summer, and evergreen foliage, about 9 inches high. It spreads by sending out underground runners and soon covers an area. Start by getting a few plants and split them up into smaller bits, spacing out the pieces a few inches apart. Very tough plant. You could also consider perennial geraniums, which grow pretty well anywhere, and soon make attractive mounds of evergreen foliage with flowers in summer of various shades of pink, excellent ground cover and very hardy. Enquire at the garden centre whether the kind you are buying will grow tall, as some of them get bigger than you need, though there are many cultivars which finish up about 1 ft high. I’d also go for sedums, especially Sedum spectabile, which has lovely green foliage early in the year and large flowers which attract autumn butterflies. Or hebes, small shrubs which have a variety of attractive foliage and some of them have pretty flowers. They grow slowly to form m
