Ground Cover
Your Best Fort Worth Area Nursery for Ground Cover Plants
Ground cover is the perfect addition to your landscape design! It acts just like a mulch in that ground covers crowd out unwanted weeds while beautifying your property. Whether you’re looking to cover a steep hill, a highly-shaded area, hard-to-maintain spots in your yard, or prevent erosion on your property, Premier Nursery has a prime selection of ground covers to fit your every need. Enjoy the practical benefits and alluring looks of our ground covers.
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Asian Jasmine: (Trachelospermum asiaticum)
Asian jasmine is a great evergreen ground cover that grows best in acidic to slightly alkaline soil. Asian Jasmine will grow in full sun to shade. Spreading up to 3 feet wide and 6 and 18 inches tall. Water evenly to keep the soil moist to a depth of 8-10 inches.
Shop Asian JasmineJasmine – Asian 4″ Pot $2.44
Jasmine – Asian 1 gal. $7.88
Green Liriope: (Liriope muscari)
Tough perennial ground cover. Grows well in deep shade or full sun, sand or clay. It can endure heat and drought but will not take extreme wet conditions. It requires moist, well-drained soil. Average height 1 to 1.5 feet tall and spreads 1 to 2 feet wide.
Shop LiriopeGreen Liriope 4″ Pots $2.44 Bloom Color: Purple
Green Liriope 1 Gallon Pot $7.88
Variegated Liriope 4″ Pot $3.88 Bloom Color: Purple
Variegated Liriope 1 Gallon Pot $9.88
Giant Liriope: (Liriope muscari “Evergreen Giant”)
Giant Liriope will grows 18 to 24 inches tall. This plant with the flowers and spreads 24 inches wide. The foliage grows is dense and close to the ground. This is an excellent, fast-growing evergreen groundcover, and does best in partial sun to shade. Giant Liriope grows best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type.
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Green Liriope 4″ Pots $2.44 Bloom Color: Purple
Green Liriope 1 Gallon Pot $7.88
Variegated Liriope 4″ Pot $3.88 Bloom Color: Purple
Variegated Liriope 1 Gallon Pot $9.88
Variegated Liriope: (Liriope muscari “Variegata”)
Variegated liriope is a perennial groundcover that features clumps of arching, glossy, green and white variegated leaves with purple-lavender flower spikes. Used as an edging plant or as a groundcover, variegated Liriope will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. This plant does best in partial shade to shade, and performs best in average to evenly moist conditions.
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Green Liriope 4″ Pots $2.44 Bloom Color: Purple
Green Liriope 1 Gallon Pot $7.88
Variegated Liriope 4″ Pot $3.88 Bloom Color: Purple
Variegated Liriope 1 Gallon Pot $9.88
Mondo Grass: (Ophiopogon japonicus)
Mondo Grass is a perennial ground cover with dense tufts of grassy foliage. This plant can be used as edging or can be grouped as accents or planted close together as a ground cover. Plant in sun to part sun. Average height 6-10 inches tall. Tolerates wet soil and is easy to grow.
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Mondo Grass – Standard 4″ Pot $2.44 Bloom Color: White
Mondo Grass – Dwarf 4″ Pot $2.97 Bloom Color: White
Mondo Grass – Standard 1 gal. $7.88
Mondo Grass – Dwarf 1 gal. $9.88
Dwarf Mondo Grass: (Ophiopogon japonicus “Nanus”)
Dwarf Mondo Grass is a dense evergreen perennial grass with a mounding habit. Grows 3- 4 inches tall, 6 inches with the flowers. With a spread of 8 inches, dwarf mondo grass does best in partial shade and prefers evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water.
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Mondo Grass – Standard 4″ Pot $2.44 Bloom Color: White
Mondo Grass – Dwarf 4″ Pot $2.97 Bloom Color: White
Mondo Grass – Standard 1 gal. $7.88
Mondo Grass – Dwarf 1 gal. $9.88
Silver Dragon Liriope: (Liriope spicata “Silver Dragon”)
The silver dragon liriope showcases silvery-grey leaves with white stripes and pale lavender flower spikes in the summer. Slow spreading and evergreen, it reaches an average height of 8 – 10 inches tall and 12-15 inches wide. Silver dragon liriope is low maintenance and easy to care for, and does well in full shade to full sun. Average water needs.
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Green Liriope 4″ Pots $2.44 Bloom Color: Purple
Green Liriope 1 Gallon Pot $7.88
Variegated Liriope 4″ Pot $3.88 Bloom Color: Purple
Variegated Liriope 1 Gallon Pot $9.88
Aztec Grass: (Liriope muscari “Aztec Grass”)
Aztec Grass grows to about 12 inches tall at full maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. This beautiful ground cover is fast growing evergreen ground cover. It and does best in part shade to full shade. It prefers evenly moist conditions and will not tolerate standing water. Aztec grass is low maintenance and easy to care for as it . Aztec Grass adapts to most soil types.
Purple Winter Creeper: (Euonymus fortune “Coloratus”)
Purple winter creeper is a trailing evergreen vine or shrub with deep green leaves turn dark purple in fall and winter. It’s easy to grow spreading to 20′ or more, average height 10-12 inches tall, heat tolerant, and does well in full sun to part shade. Average water requirements.
Periwinkles (Vinca minor)
Periwinkles, or vinca or creeping myrtle, are a beautiful ground cover with opposite leaves and a single flower. The trailing stems of the periwinkle root when they touch the ground, making the plant the perfect ground cover or trailing plant for containers, window boxes, or planters.
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