Hi all, can anyone recommend some year round flowering low growing plants? If there is such a think 🥴 been looking at phlox subulata but that only flowers for a few weeks
Erysmium "Bowles Mauve" is about the longest-flowering small-ish plant I can think of but it' s not as low-growing as the phlox that you mentioned. I can't think of anything that flowers all year round (gorse comes close but is a big prickly shrub).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Every day when out walking with my dog I admire a patch of Knautia in a garden just around the corner. It was a mass of flowers throughout the summer and autumn and winter and I noticed it's still in flower today. It doesn't seem to get any care at all and is spread over a wide area. It sprawls about and isn't more than about 12" I've no idea of the variety, but it's quite a deep red
Billericay - Essex
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Knautia macedonica - mine flowers throughout summer and autumn but the flower stalks get to 3 feet tall and it's not a tidy plant - the foliage gets tatty if it's not cut back hard now and again. I think there is a dwarf version these days.
If you're wanting very low mat-like (prostrate) plants then things like arabis, aubretia etc come in variegated forms which would have colour all year round, but not flowers all year round. Some of the smaller variegated hebes might work, but are rounded rather than prostrate.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
In temperate climates nothing will flower all year round. You need to choose a selection of plants which will give you year round interest so some low growing, evergreen ground cover is a place to start, preferably with interesting foliage and then a seasonal succession of flowering plants mixed in, including spring and autumn flowering bulbs suited to the soil.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Not knowing where the member lives... it's always helpful to know, because if you happen to be on the south coast, or the south west coastal locations you will find lots of plants flowering all through winter for you... even here in East Anglia, Osteospermums have been in bloom all winter, as they can withstand several degrees of frost.. tender perennials and some annuals like Nemesia... will carry on if mild enough..
For hardier stock, I have several roses that bloom all winter, even during freezing conditions, but you won't find them for £2.50 in Aldi....
Also seek out Parahebe 'Avalanche' as it blooms 9 or perhaps 10 months of the year where I am so far..
I have nemesias now flowering continually for two years (bought in May 2017, they survived two winters). But I am in coastal location with mild winters and have them in pots in sheltered area close to the house. They are usually grown as annuals.
Another simple method is to plant winter pansies for 6 months then whip them out and replace with violas for the other six, to ring the changes... I use bedding begonias but not everyone likes those..
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It was a mass of flowers throughout the summer and autumn and winter and I noticed it's still in flower today. It doesn't seem to get any care at all and is spread over a wide area. It sprawls about and isn't more than about 12"
I've no idea of the variety, but it's quite a deep red
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
For hardier stock, I have several roses that bloom all winter, even during freezing conditions, but you won't find them for £2.50 in Aldi....
Also seek out Parahebe 'Avalanche' as it blooms 9 or perhaps 10 months of the year where I am so far..