{"id":27950,"date":"2017-05-13T07:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T11:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/garden-goddess\/?p=27950"},"modified":"2017-05-13T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T11:16:22","slug":"whats-creeping-garden-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/garden-goddess\/2017\/05\/whats-creeping-garden-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s &#8220;Creeping&#8221; in My Garden This Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/garden-goddess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/05\/may-our-house-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/garden-goddess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/05\/may-our-house-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/garden-goddess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/05\/may-our-house.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>Perennial ground covers are a welcome sight in my garden this week.\u00a0 My creeping phlox, (phlox subulata) is a flash of color I see out my kitchen window each morning.\u00a0\u00a0 This hardy spring blooming perennial gives you carpets of tiny colorful flowers with semi-evergreen thin foliage.\u00a0 It comes in varieties of white, red, lavender, pink and a bluish color.\u00a0 Creeping phlox boast a long bloom time and fragrance.\u00a0 They are one of my go to perennials for the start of an all season garden.\u00a0 It has a moderate growth rate, can reach 4-6 inches high and can spread a good 2 feet or more with one plant.\u00a0 It will work in full sun and part shade.<\/p>\n<p>Creeping phlox blends well with concurrent blooming perennial ground covers like\u00a0 my creeping myrtle (vinca minor) and snow in summer (cerastium tomentosum).\u00a0 The creeping myrtle is currently sporting its purple flower, while the snow in summer is hosting white flowers on a silvery gray foliage.\u00a0 The myrtle prefers a shade environment, while the snow in summer likes full sun.\u00a0 Both work in areas you want to reduce weeds and have plenty of room to spread.\u00a0 I like to use mine at the borders of my pond stream beds and walkway perimeters.\u00a0 They soften the landscape perimeters when using river blend stone in areas.\u00a0 Other great applications include rock walls and inclined areas to reduce erosion.\u00a0 They will tolerate some amount of foot traffic, so you can place them between foot path slabs.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/garden-goddess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/05\/snow-in-summer-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/garden-goddess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/05\/snow-in-summer-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/garden-goddess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/05\/snow-in-summer.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All 3 of these spring blooming varieties are on my list of perennial ground covers with &#8220;CSS Attitude&#8221; (Common Sense and Sustainability).\u00a0 Not only are they a reliable performer, they attract early season pollinators to my gardens.\u00a0\u00a0 Surround them with great organic mulch when you plant, well draining soil and the light requirements they prefer&#8230;and these will continue to offer texture and carpeting after bloom.\u00a0 Once established, I do cut back the thicker grey branches that have stopped producing to give way to softer, new growth.\u00a0 This will stimulate more blooms next spring.\u00a0 In addition to the organic mulch, I do recommend seasonal slow release organic fertilizer application.\u00a0\u00a0 These spring blooming ground cover perennials are great compliments to later bloomers such as creeping thyme, creeping sedums and ajuga.<\/p>\n<p>As always keeping common sense and sustainability the core of all my garden practices.\u00a0 Garden coaching in now underway for the season, call for an appointment.\u00a0 Summer in the Garden Workshop Series is coming Soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perennial ground covers are a welcome sight in my garden this week.\u00a0 My creeping phlox, (phlox subulata) is a flash of color I see out my kitchen window each morning.\u00a0\u00a0 This hardy spring blooming perennial gives you carpets of tiny colorful flowers with semi-evergreen thin foliage.\u00a0 It comes in varieties of white, red, lavender, pink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":27958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>What&#039;s &quot;Creeping&quot; 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