Two Sedum spurium 'Voodoo' - IB2DWs - October 2023
#17 on my 2023 to-do list was to 'keep going with groundcover' and that's something that I've done in little pockets all season-long. The idea of 'living mulch' along with the ability to buy LESS wood mulch is quite attractive to me. Not to mention the increased competition with weeds, the 'reduction of footcandles' (as Roy Diblik puts it ) and the filling in spaces. There's, frankly, a lot of reasons to like groundcover. Last year, I added 20-or-so groundcover plants including some Ajuga and Carex. This year, I've looked at how well the Ajuga 'Chocolate Chip' has done and posted about my groundcover progress for 2023 . Earlier this Summer -in early August - I ran a subtotal of my groundcover plantings for the 2023 season . At that time, I totaled 30 new groundcover plants and plugs for 2023: 1 Epimedium warleyense - Orange Queen Epimedium 3 Spine Tingler Epimedium 14 Ajuga Chocolate Chip 6 Ajuga Bronze Beauty 3 Carex Montana