If you have bare patches in your lawn, you're likely looking for a pretty ground cover to fill them in. This beautiful blue flower is just the thing.

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Growing colorful and distinctive North American native flowers as ground cover is a great way to attract pollinators and prevent weeds.

The tight-knit leaves and small, purple-blue flowers of Mazus reptans may look delicate, but this low-growing, creeping ground cover is surprisingly sturdy.

The flowers of the ceanothus are loose branching clusters of small, tight-fisted florets. Each flower cluster alone is not a showstopper, but the effect of them on the bush in full bloom is.

Small, blue spike flowers are produced in the spring. Typical height is 3 to 5 inches, although there are some large-leaf varieties which are taller and have larger flowers.

Q: What hardy groundcover has small blue flowers? — P.H., Houston A:Dayflower, Commelina spp., has jointed stems, lance-shaped foliage and three-petaled blue blooms that are open for a day.

Increasingly, though, we are using ground covers to add horizontal beauty to our gardens, be that as an understory planting or as feature plants in their own right.

A few perennial flowers were scattered in this area to continue the color into summer. I like to combine bulbs with ground covers. Bulbs will come up quite well through ground covers.

Low-growing spreading perennial; purple foliage; spikes of cobalt blue flowers in spring; there are many cultivars of ajuga with variegated foliage of various colors and sizes; use only in small ...

Its foliage ranges from green to deep red or variegated, and it produces spikes of purple-blue flowers in late spring ... if you can beat the wildlife to them! Ground covers may be small, but their ...