Paving Plants for Patio Gardens
These low-growing, fine-textured plants can tolerate the hot, dry conditions between paving stones, and most will tolerate being walked on lightly. Tuck them between stepping stones, bricks, and patio blocks to soften the look of the masonry.
PERENNIALS FOR PAVING
SPRING
Ajuga reptans
(bugleweed, carpet bugle)
Aubrieta deltoidea (rock cress)
Phlox subulata (moss pink)
SUMMER
Achillea tomentosa
(woolly milfoil)
Armeria maritima (sea pink, thrift)
Campanula carpatic (Carpathian bellflower)
Cerastium tomentosum (snow-in-summer)
Lysimachia nummulara (moneywort, creeping Jenny, creeping
Charley)
Mentha requienii (Corsican mint)
Sedum acre (goldmoss sedum)
Thymus pseudolanuginosus (woolly thyme)
Thymus praecox arcticus (mother of thyme)
ANNUALS FOR PAVING
Brachycome iberidifolia
(swan river daisy)
Dyssodia tenuiloba (Dahlberg daisy, golden fleece)
Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)
Lobelia erinus (edging lobelia)
Lobularia maritima (sweet alyssum)
Portulaca grandiflora (moss rose)
Viola tricolor (Johnny-jump-up)
