Unique Draping Plants Full Sun

Large Leaf Lambs Ears Helen von Stein by Patrick Standish is licensed under CC BY 20 LONDON PRIDE Saxifraga This delicate plant grows well in a shady spot of the garden.

Draping plants full sun. With its silvery leaves and furry feel the leaves of the licorice vine and. Although usually grown only for foliage hostas do flower and the blossom spikes are attractive to some butterflies and. These ground-hugging fleshy plants grow as rosettes forming a mat of red green gray silvery-green or pink colors.

Plants in hanging baskets require more frequent watering than the same plants require when planted in the garden. The Axcent series of Aubrietacomes in rich saturated purples and pinks that do an excellent job of softening hardscaping and trailing over walls. It blooms is many different colors and.

Give this plant full sun and sharply draining soil. Ivy geranium will spill over the edges of your container. These evergreens need excellent pot drainage and tolerate full sun to full shade they are a great low-light plant.

Grown in full sun sweet alyssum Lobularia produces profuse clusters of very small four-petaled flowers. They prefer to be in indirect sunlight or dappled light. Portulaca is a popular choice for rock gardens loving the sun and dry soil and creeping to create a lovely ground cover.

The ivy form has smaller flowers but blooms just as abundantly as the upright form. Types of succulents such as Hens and Chicks are excellent evergreen full-sun ground cover plants. Plectranthus ciliatus is a great evergreen perennial ground cover with a draping effect.

The flat horizontal branches are arranged in a distinctive fishbone pattern that draws attention in rock gardens trailing over walls or along sloping banks. They are also lovely and common enough to easily find. If you get tired of them as a houseplant they can transition to ground cover.