As of: March 26, 2024, 5:31 a.m
By: Ines Alms
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Is the lawn too bland or in need of care?
Instead, there are durable alternatives that don't need to be mowed and are still walkable.
1 / 10The creeping carpet verbena (Phyla nodiflora) tolerates both heat and moisture and is very hard-wearing - the perfect lawn replacement.
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2 / 10Actually too beautiful to enter, but the cushion thyme (Thymus doerfleri) forgives it.
It also releases a wonderful scent.
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3 / 10 Small clove plants can also be ground cover: Star moss (Sagina subulata) is a low-growing cushion perennial.
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4 / 10The blue bobhead (Isotoma fluviatilis) not only blooms for months until autumn, the densely growing perennial can also be walked on.
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5 / 10From March to October, the spring cinquefoil (Potentilla verna) forms a lawn-like, yellow carpet with breaks in flowering, which you can also walk on - if the bees have not already occupied it.
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6 / 10 You shouldn't jump around wildly on the Spanish stonecrop (Sedum hispanicum), but you can walk on the typical green roof without any problems.
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7 / 10The creeping gunsel (Ajuga reptans) grows up to 15 centimeters high, but is very robust and can be easily mowed like a lawn.
Bees love him too.
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8 / 10From May onwards, the hardy feather cushion (Cotula Squalida) shows small yellow flowers.
The easy-care plant quickly forms dense mats.
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9 / 10The insensitive pennywort (Lysimachia nummularia) also cuts a fine figure in the rock garden and in floor joints.
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10 / 10From April to September, the large-leaved periwinkle 'Alba' presents its flowers.
Thanks to the dense growth, entry is still permitted.
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Whether as an underplant, between stone tiles as a gap filler or as a lawn replacement - low-growing and hard-wearing ground cover plants are easy to care for and, with their flowers, are often a valuable natural enrichment for the garden.
If you choose winter-hardy varieties, you won't have to worry about dense carpets of plants next year.
Especially since the perennials spread quickly without any further action.
Even if they form flowers, you don't have to be afraid to enter the area.
The small flowers are present in such large numbers and the growth is so robust that the plants can withstand at least temporary stress.
Only those who walk barefoot should look around for insects that like to visit the flowers.