Close planting of shrubs and perennials will help to create an attractive weed-excluding cover. However, effective cover can only be achieved by planting into soil from which perennial weeds have been eliminated. The following plants are particularly useful because of their dense foliage.
- Ajuga reptans 'Purple Torch'
- Astilbe chinensis van pumila
- Bergenia 'Beethoven'
- Bergenia x schmidtii
- Bergenia 'Ballawley'
- Calluna vulgaris (all)
- Calluna vulgaris (all)
- Calluna vulgaris 'Darkness'
- Chamaecypans lawsoniana 'Tamariscifolia'
- Convallaria majalis
- Cotoneaster conspicuus 'Decorus'
- Cotoneaster 'Hybridus Pendulus'
- Dicentra 'Luxuriant'
- Epimedium x rubrum
- Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum'
- Epimedium x youngianum 'Niveum'
- Erica vagans 'Mrs D.F. Maxwell'
- Erica (all)
- Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Purpurea'
- Galax urceolata
- Gaultheria mucronata (all)
- Geranium macrorrhizum 'Ingwersen's Variety'
- Geranium x riversleaianum 'Russell Prichard'
- Hedera (most)
- Heuchera micrantha var. diversifolia 'Palace Purple'
- Hosta (all)
- Hosta fortunei vat. albopicta
- Hosta undulata var. univittata
- Jumperus x pfitzenana 'Wilhelm Pfitzer'
- Juniperus squamata 'Blue Star'
- Li hope muscari
- Lomcera nitida 'Baggesen's Gold'
- Nandina domestica 'Fire Power'
- Omphalodes cappadocica
- Persicaria vaccinifolia
- Pulmonaria 'Mawson's Blue'
- Rosa Magic Carpet
- Tellima grandiflora 'Purpurteppich'
- x Heucherella tiarelloides
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