Excellent for mass planting, this perennial bears lavender coloured flowers in spring and early summer. Leaves and flowers can be used in salads. Both smell of garlic when bruised. 

A popular dark-green, clump forming ornamental grass that requires little care once established. It is a perfect groundcover and is commonly used to fill the gaps between stepping stones and pavers.

Brachyscome is a compact perennial with tons of flowers from spring to summer and on to autumn. It is a great plant for containers and for flower gardens and grows easy.

This dwarf cultivar of Carissa macrocarpa is a popular groundcover which seldom grows more than knee height. It forms a dense mat of attractive, glossy emerald green foliage. Fragrant, starry white flowers and edible red fruit occasionally throught the year. Also looks great in a container. Due to its hardiness, drought-resistance and evergreen nature it is widely used in commercial landscapes, along road sides and in parking areas under trees.

This perennial Gazania is native to the mountains of South Africa and produce large, daisy-like flowerheads in brilliant shades of yellow, white, red, pink and orange, in autumn, spring and summer. They are often planted as a drought-tolerant groundcover.

‘McConnell’s Blue‘ is the most widely grown rosemary. It bears small blue flowers in summer, and grows slowly but surely into a large bush. Prune and shape it regularly if you want a smaller, more compact shrub.

Excellent for mass planting, this perennial, with its variegated leaves, bears lavender coloured flowers in spring and early summer.

This perennial Gazania is native to the mountains of South Africa and produce large, daisy-like flowerheads in brilliant shades of yellow, white, red, pink and orange, in autumn, spring and summer. They are often planted as a drought-tolerant groundcover.

A succulent forming a medium sized rosette of matt, very attractive chocolate-grey leaves. Perfect for the water wise garden.

A hardy, evergreen, succulent groundcover with long, trailing stems. Perfect pea-like, round leaves with a translucent stripe spaced along their entire length hang along the stems, hence the common name ‘String of Pearls’.

Lovely when massed as a ground cover. Provides textural contrast in garden beds. 'Cwebe' is a more upright version of 'Sprengeri' with very graceful, upright, arching fronds with long needle-like leaves. The young fronds are a very attractive copper colour. This is the only cultivar that does not like sun at all and should be grown in light shade. Tiny fragrant white flowers occur from November to April. 

One of the ‘go-to grasses’ because it pairs well with so many other plants and it grows in a small, neat clump that looks beautifully delicate when spilling over the front of a pot.

A fast growing groundcover with pretty white trumpet-shaped flowers and green to yellow shiny leaves, that provides a carpet-like look in the garden. Hardy, evergreen and mat-forming.

An extremely decorative choice for a ground cover, on retaining walls or in containers. It creates interest in the garden as the leaves change colour with the seasons. It also produce masses of tiny light-pink flowers in summer.

An evergreen, hardy, carpet-forming groundcover with a compact neat habit. Lovely small grey-green, silvery leaves and yellow daisy-like flowers. Ideal to plant between cobbles and pavers as it tolerates moderate foot traffic.

The vibrant foliage makes this perennial succulent a terrific choice for mixed plantings where it can be free to cascade over the side of a planter or wall.

A cute succulent with bright green bean-shaped leaves that will turn a deep red to bronze when exposed to full sun. Bears small yellow star-shaped flowers in Spring. Easy to grow.

A lovely succulent with a gorgeous pink tint to the edges of the blueish-green leaves. Its long-lasting flowers are pink-orange coloured on slender stalks.

Drought-resistant, evergreen shrubs and trees, with handsome, glossy foliage and fragrant, starry-white, jasmine-like flowers. Ornamental and edible, scarlet to crimson oval fruits are produced after flowering. Carissas are attractive, ornamental shrubs and make excellent hedges. Does well in coastal areas. Plant 1 m to form an impenetrable hedge, they have thorns. 

A fairly hardy, pretty, succulent groundcover that looks fabulous cascading down a rockery or in a pot.

This hardy, fast growing evergreen herb has a semi-trailing and compact growth habit. Corsican bears strong aromatic leaves and blue flowers. Ideal for hanging baskets and borders. Flowers and leaves can be used for culinary purposes.

Forms a weeping mound of fine textured bronze foliage. Lovely when spilling over slopes, pots and garden edges.

Boxwood Beauty is a thornless low growing evergreen dwarf shrub, bearing white, star-shaped flowers and dark green, thick leathery leaves. Flowers are followed by scarlet, edible fruit with a cranberry-like flavor. Drought and salt resistant.

Ophiopogon jaburan has dark green, ribbon-like leaves and produces white flowers during the summer. An excellent long-lasting groundcover.  Ideal for mass planting.

A succulent with fat, lustrous green leaves edged in red when in bright ligth. Small white flowers with yellow centres will appear in winter. The spreading habit is ideal for a rock garden or spilling over the edge of a container.

A low growing matt-forming, evergreen succulent perennial with yellow-green needle-like foliage. Sedum Angelina is fast spreading and will be adorned with small, yellow star-shaped flowers in midsummer. This low maintenance plant is perfect for rock gardens.

A popular trailing succulent that has interesting leaves that are shaped like bananas or fishooks. Perfect to grow in a hanging basket or in well-drained soil in the garden - this fast growing succulent will trail along the ground.

This versatile, low maintenance cultivar makes an excellent house plant, and is also ideal for hanging baskets or as a ground cover in the garden. In summer tiny white flowers are followed by attractive, bright red berries.

A hardy, evergreen, succulent groundcover with long, trailing stems. Perfect pea-like, round leaves with a translucent stripe spaced along their entire length hang along the stems, hence the common name ‘String of Pearls’.

Senecio serpens is a dwarf semi-trailing succulent, with cylindrical blue-green leaves. This low-growing succulent provides spectacular form and colour in the garden and makes for an interesting groundcover.

These popular garden and container plants resemble miniature aloes. Their charm is in their small size, ease of growth, and the almost infinite variation of their delightful leaves.