Colorful Plants for Saira's Sunny Parking Strip
Collection by SwansonsNursery Seattle
We suggested a variety of groundcovers, perennials, and shrubs that will thrive in a sunny parking strip and offer interest throughout the year with colorful flowers and foliage. Many of the flowers will attract pollinators! Click on the Pins for details about each plant.
Groundcovers
How to Grow & Care for Sedum Plants • The Garden Glove
Learn how to grow and care for sedum plants! These tough succulents are cold hardy, drought tolerant and heat tolerant! And, stonecrop is deer resistant!
Rubus calycinoides "Creeping Raspberry"
This evergreen spreads quickly, holds a slope tenaciously, and does well in dry conditions once established. Excellent for sites where other plants have not performed well. Sun or shade. Leaves turn raspberry red in fall.
Common Rock Rose {Helianthemum nummularium} | Alex Hyde
Gold Nugget Sun Rose (Helianthemum x nummularium) is a tough groundcover and great for growing in full sun and becomes drought tolerant when established. Blooms with golden yellow flowers from May to June. This evergreen groundcovers grows 6 inches tall x 12 inches wide.
Iberis sempervirens Pink Ice® - Corbeille d'argent - Thalspi
Pink Ice Candytuft is a tough, evergreen groundcover with thick foliage smothered by large light pink flowers in mid spring. Great for rockeries and parking strips. Grows in full sun to part shade, 6 inches tall x 12 inches wide.
Red Thyme is a low-growing, spreading ground cover that has purplish-red flowers throughout summer. Grows 3 to 6 inches tall and spreads 12 to 18 inches wide. Although it is a slow grower, it becomes an effective ground cover along a pathway or as a lawn substitute. Grows well in full sun. Evergreen.
Lithodora is a beautiful evergreen ground cover blooming in spring with deep blue flowers. This ground cover grows well in rockeries and on slopes in full sun to part shade. Grows 6 inches tall and 24 inches wide.
Perennials
Euphorbia Ascot Rainbow - Buy Spurge Perennials Online
Buy Euphorbia Ascot Rainbow - Buy Spurge Perennials Online. Garden Crossings Online Garden Center offers a large selection of Spurge Plants. Shop our Online Perennial catalog today.
Fireland Yarrow shows off orangey-red flowers from June-September. This perennial is a great choice for full sun and hot areas, and it attracts butterflies! Grows 18 inches tall x 24 inches wide.
Plant Profile for Kniphofia ‘Flamenco’ mixture - Torchlily Perennial
Flamenco Torchlily (Kniphofia) blooms in summer with bold spikes of orange, red, and yellow from June to September. A hummingbird favorite! Grows best in full sun. 12-18 inches tall x wide. Evergreen.
Goldfinger Libertia is a showstopper with its distinctive golden yellow leaves and provides beautiful color throughout the season. In summer, the blooming Iris-like white flowers are great for pollinators. Full sun to part shade. 18" tall x wide. Blooms from June to July. Evergreen.
PlantFiles Pictures: Blue Oat Grass 'Sapphire' (Helictotrichon sempervirens) by sanannie
Sapphire Blue Oat Grass(Helictotrichon) is a reliable favorite with wide blue evergreen leaves. Best grown in full sun for best color. Produces tall seed heads in June. Grows 1-24 inches tall x wide. The blue color pairs nicely with yellow tones perennial and shrubs.
Lavande Platinum Blonde - Lavandula compacte à feuillage panaché
Platinum Blonde Lavender offers beautiful color year round with cream and green evergreen leaves. Blooms in summer with lovely fragrant blue flower spikes. Great for attracting pollinators. Grows best in full sun, 16-24 inches tall x 18 inches wide.
Shrubs
Monrovia White Kaleidoscope Abelia Accent Shrub in Pot Lowes.com
White Kaleidoscope Abelia Accent Shrub in Pot
Other Pins
The Best Ground Covers for a Sunny Area
The myriad types of low-growing ground covers include perennials, semievergreens, evergreen shrubs and succulents.
Monrovia White Kaleidoscope Abelia Accent Shrub in Pot Lowes.com
White Kaleidoscope Abelia Accent Shrub in Pot
How to Grow & Care for Sedum Plants • The Garden Glove
Learn how to grow and care for sedum plants! These tough succulents are cold hardy, drought tolerant and heat tolerant! And, stonecrop is deer resistant!
Rubus calycinoides "Creeping Raspberry"
This evergreen spreads quickly, holds a slope tenaciously, and does well in dry conditions once established. Excellent for sites where other plants have not performed well. Sun or shade. Leaves turn raspberry red in fall.
Common Rock Rose {Helianthemum nummularium} | Alex Hyde
Gold Nugget Sun Rose (Helianthemum x nummularium) is a tough groundcover and great for growing in full sun and becomes drought tolerant when established. Blooms with golden yellow flowers from May to June. This evergreen groundcovers grows 6 inches tall x 12 inches wide.
Iberis sempervirens Pink Ice® - Corbeille d'argent - Thalspi
Pink Ice Candytuft is a tough, evergreen groundcover with thick foliage smothered by large light pink flowers in mid spring. Great for rockeries and parking strips. Grows in full sun to part shade, 6 inches tall x 12 inches wide.
Red Thyme is a low-growing, spreading ground cover that has purplish-red flowers throughout summer. Grows 3 to 6 inches tall and spreads 12 to 18 inches wide. Although it is a slow grower, it becomes an effective ground cover along a pathway or as a lawn substitute. Grows well in full sun. Evergreen.
Lithodora is a beautiful evergreen ground cover blooming in spring with deep blue flowers. This ground cover grows well in rockeries and on slopes in full sun to part shade. Grows 6 inches tall and 24 inches wide.
Euphorbia Ascot Rainbow - Buy Spurge Perennials Online
Buy Euphorbia Ascot Rainbow - Buy Spurge Perennials Online. Garden Crossings Online Garden Center offers a large selection of Spurge Plants. Shop our Online Perennial catalog today.
Fireland Yarrow shows off orangey-red flowers from June-September. This perennial is a great choice for full sun and hot areas, and it attracts butterflies! Grows 18 inches tall x 24 inches wide.
Plant Profile for Kniphofia ‘Flamenco’ mixture - Torchlily Perennial
Flamenco Torchlily (Kniphofia) blooms in summer with bold spikes of orange, red, and yellow from June to September. A hummingbird favorite! Grows best in full sun. 12-18 inches tall x wide. Evergreen.
Goldfinger Libertia is a showstopper with its distinctive golden yellow leaves and provides beautiful color throughout the season. In summer, the blooming Iris-like white flowers are great for pollinators. Full sun to part shade. 18" tall x wide. Blooms from June to July. Evergreen.