Beautiful Groundcover Plants for Yard Decorating, How to Choose Right Spots for Small Plants

Groundcover plants are beautiful additions to gardens and yards. Several plants are known for their cushion-like growth habit, creating a soft appearance on the ground. Groundcovers are small to medium-sized plants with dense, domed shoots that create beautiful accents in gardens and add color to yards when grown in pots. They have long been a source of interest to flower growers. Explore the Lushome collection, which showcases plants and offers expert advice on decorating yards with groundcovers.

These flowering plants can bring novelty to any corner of the suburban area, accentuate country home gardens, and add color to container gardens. You will fall in love with these small plants as they begin to grow on your site. Creeping Phlox, Sedum, Baby Tears, Creeping Thyme, and Cushion Spurge (Euphorbia polychroma) are common groundcover plants that add beauty to yards and gardens.

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Yard decorating with groundcover plants

Some of these flowering plants are deciduous perennials and colorful annuals that grow in unusual ways, forming lush ‘cushions’. It is worth to learn about these flowering plants to use them as unique yard decorations. Here is the list of the best groundcover plants to consider for your walkways, rock gardens, and flower bed borders.

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Groundcover plants

Phlox subulata (Creeping or Moss Phlox)
Phlox douglasii (Tufted phlox or Columbia phlox)
Stemless Campion (Moss Campion)
Carex pilosula (Pill sedge)
Aubrieta
Bryozoan subulate
Euphorbia multiflora
Lobularia maritima
Ethionema (Pteridophyte)
Campanula Portenschlagiana (Dalmatian Bellflower)
Saxifrage Arends
Thrift (Armeria)
Alyssum scaly (Sweet Alyssum)
Portenschlag’s bell
Dianthus Dektoides (Miniature Carnation)

Benefits

The soil under such ‘cushion’ plants stays moist longer, so many of them do not need frequent watering. The soil is naturally enriched with the decayed shoots and leaves of the bush. These small plants grow well without frequent fertilizing, develop quickly, and produce abundant blooms.

Planting spots

Small plants can get lost on the site, so it’s essential to find the ideal spot for planting them in your garden or yard. Popular places include alpine landscapes, rockeries, rutariums, flower beds, and borders. You can grow them along garden paths or around yard and garden structures. Flower beds look beautiful with groundcover plants, too.

Decorating hillsides, slopes, terraces, low concrete or stone walls, and boulders, or filling voids in flower beds, are fabulous ideas for yards and gardens. These small plants make fantastic yard decorations, planted along fences or in tree trunk circles and containers. Regardless of the location you choose for planting, consider the basic needs of the plants. You shouldn’t get too carried away with making mixes from different ‘cushion’ plants, because some small plants are so powerful that they can suppress the growth of their neighbors.

  by Ena Russ   
   12.07.2025