Northeast Gardening: Ground covers with bulbs, 1 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:
Meg, the bearberry is a tough little plant to get established as it prefers extremely well-drained, sandy soils. Although, once it gets established it makes a wonderful evergreen groundcover. Mazus on the other hand fills in quickly and is a great groundcover, tolerating a much wider variety of growing conditions including heavy clay soils. Plus you have a choice of purple or white flowers!

I posted this on another forum - a really nice combination I saw last spring at AHS River Farm in Alexandria, VA. This is a large planting of 'Autumn Joy' Sedum combined with the tulips. There was another planting I didn't get a picture of that was even more spectacular - a deep purple lily-flowering Tulip! I thought this was a perfect match because in early spring the emerging foliage looks like a groundcover, but as it grows, the foliage of the Sedum will mask the dying tulips.