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Isn't Ivy considered to be invasive and not usually recommended for use in the landscape?
There is a big issue about this in the NW, b/c certain types of Ivy have become very invasive. However, here, you can even mow the stuff and it does make a good ground cover. We have it at our house and we do have to rip it off the brick, but we keep it under control.
Thuja Occidentalis (Emerald Green Arbovitae)
Japanese Maples (multiple species)
Phlox
Indian Hawthorn
Gold Thread Falsecypress
Gardenia (shade to partial shade)
Camelia (partial shade)
Trumpet Lilies
Asiatic Lilies
Purple Heart
Elephant Ears
Cathedral Rose
Various Monkey Grass
Dwarf grasses
Darlows Enigma (this is a beautiful new hybrid rose--you have to order!)
Most ornamental grasses (they like impoverished soil, so go light on feeding, mix organic material with red clay and top soil and then throw in some sharp sand, can be mulched with pebbles)
Rosa rugosa (shrub rose) - also carpet roses (they like clay - I throw in some bone meal to the topsoil/clay/compost mixture)
I am planting dutch white clover rather than a traditional "lawn"
Spanish Gold Hardy Broom
Hardy Plumbago (one of my fav groundcovers)
Variegated Bishop's Weed (terririfc ground cover that can become invasive)
Did you know that in many areas butterfly bush (buddleia) is considered to be an invasive?
"One woman's weed is another's treasured plant."
Happy digging!
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