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Ground cover suppressing weeds
I have a strip of land 1.5m wide x 15m with a narrow native hedge and lots of weeds underneath. It runs between a pretty unkept pasture and my beloved vegetable garden. I am clearing the weeds underneath and would like to plant some form of ground cover, either in the form of evergreen greenery or perennial flowers, that will suppress the weeds but not take over my vegetable garden. Does such a thing exist? Does anyone have any ideas?
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how about geraniums, you can get them in a huge variety of colours and they are tough plants for under a hedge
Alchemilla mollis would do and so would vinca major.
But just remember that no ground cover plant will suppress weeds. They will grow under them and up through. Weeding is much harder too. I have just spent a 'happy' 2 hours lifting up and weeding under Geranium Johnson's Blue to get at the Ragged robin and the Fireweed and the Ash trees which somehow manage to grow underneath in the deepest darkest driest shade.
thats very helpful thank you.