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Home | Plants-OLD | Xeriscape-OLD | Xeric Groundcovers Display and Test Garden

Xeric Groundcovers Display and Test Garden

This garden tests and demonstrates water-wise groundcover plants that could be used to replace areas of turf, be used to fill in around larger perennials, shrubs or trees and to create edgings along streets and walks. They can function as mulch, reducing evaporation and heating of the soil. Some spread only a little; others spread up to 4’ from one plant. It is not advisable to use only one variety to cover an entire yard; that would create a monoculture, like a lawn, with similar pest and disease problems. Unlike a lawn, these plants will flower, sometimes have fall color and sometimes have evergreen foliage.

This half of the garden uses half the water of bluegrass

Erigeron glaucus ‘Olga’

Erigeron scopalinus

Delosperma ‘Kelaidis’

Sempervivum arachnoides

Herniaria glabra

Aethionema grandiflora

Dianthus petraeus noeanus

Scutellaria supina

Iberis, dwarf varieties

Campanula garganica

Aubrieta d. ‘Purple Gem’

Globularia cordifolia

Eriogonum umb. ‘Kannah Creek’

Acaena myriophylla

Dianthus grat. ‘Painted Lady’

Satureja mont. ssp. Illyrica

Phlox sub. ‘Boothman’s Variety’

Linum dolmiticum hybrid

Waldsteinia ternata

Lamiastrum ‘Herman’s Pride’

Geranium ‘Ballerina’

Geranium cant. ‘Biokovo’

Geranium dalmaticum

Geranium ‘Dwarf Purple’

Delosperma ‘John Proffitt’

Scabiosa lucida

Gazania linearis

Alyssum wulfenianum

Prunella grandiflora

Saponaria ‘Max Frei’

Cerastium candidissimum

Origanum vulg. ‘Humile’

Veronica cuneifolium

Alyssum pateri

Potentilla neumanniana Nana

Dianthus gratianopolitanus

This half of the garden uses a quarter the water of bluegrass

Achillea serbica

Penstemon pinifolius ‘Mersea Yellow’

Achillea kellereri

Pterocephalus depressus

Teucrium cham. compactum

Marrubium rotundifolium

Tanacetum densum var. amani

Veronica pectinata

Dianthus grat. ‘Tiny Rubies’

Marrubium rotundifolium (silver edge)

Reiter Thyme

Anacyclus depressus

Thymus languinosus

Thymus ‘Back Wall’

Dianthus freynii

Dianthus simulans

Veronica liwanensis

Veronica oltensis

Veronica allioni

Veronica tauricola

Thymus baeticus

Thymus ‘Red Creeping’

Clear Gold Thyme

Tuffet Thyme

Goldstream Lemon Thyme

Thymus neiceffii

Woolly Thyme

Thymus minus

Sedum ‘Bronze Carpet’

Sedum ‘ Dragon’s Blood’

Sedum hybridum

Sedum album

For a description of these plants, go here.

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    • Natives
    • Roses
      • 2019 OWN-ROOT ROSES LIST
      • CO Sustainable Roses
      • Miniature Roses for Colorado
      • Rose Testing & Display
      • Roses For Mountain Communities
      • Roses of Exceptional Fragrance
      • Tea House Roses
      • Xeriscape Roses
    • Tea House Roses
    • Xeriscape-OLD
      • Drought Tolerant Annuals
      • Short Plants for Dry Conditions
      • Xeric Groundcovers Display and Test Garden
      • Xeriscape Annuals
      • Xeriscape Herb Garden
      • Xeriscape Ornamental Grasses
      • Xeriscape Perennials and Biennials For Shade
      • Xeriscape Rock Garden
      • Xeriscape Roses
      • Xeriscape Trees And Shrubs For Shade
      • Xeriscape Trees And Shrubs For Sun

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Our plants are for sale ONLY at our Boulder location. We DO NOT ship plants. Come visit us!

Hours by Season

MARCH HOURS
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

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303-939-9403 (Retail)
staff@nullharlequinsgardens.com

4795 North 26th St
Boulder, CO 80301

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Our Hours

Seasonally, MARCH to OCTOBER.
MARCH HOURS:
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS:
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

The plants we grow are organically grown. All the plants we sell are free of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.