Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Lime Sweet Potato Vine - Three Planted As Groundcover - June 2025

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Yesterday, I posted a couple of photos of a pair of Silver Swirl Dusty Millers and talked about how I was using them to fill up some space in the new pizza oven bed.  Today, I'm showing a few more annuals-as-groundcover plants:  three Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Lime Sweet Potato Vine plants.  Below are a few photos showing these 'accent plants' that normally are sold for the 'spill' in your containers: 

Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Lime Sweet Potato Vine

Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Lime Sweet Potato Vine

Here's what Proven Winners says about them:
Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Lime boasts brilliant lime green, heart-shaped leaves that bring a refreshing pop of color to any garden. This heat-tolerant beauty requires no deadheading, making it a low-maintenance addition to your landscape. It excels as a ground cover, spreading quickly to fill in spaces, and also works wonderfully as a foliage component in mixed plant combinations.
Sounds perfect, right? Fills up a space. Just what I need.  I spread out three of them in a triangle and got busy planting them.  I'm hoping they'll fill in this bed and smother-out any potential weeds that pop up here:

Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Lime Sweet Potato Vine

Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Lime Sweet Potato Vine

They look tiny right now.  I'll revisit this post later this Summer to see how far they've grown.

Location: Downers Grove, IL, USA

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