European Gardening: Interesting ground covers, 1 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
Baa,

I have a little area edging my pond, witch is pure compacted wet clay and I have some plants which grow happily in it.
Among them are lysimachia nummularia that forms a beautiful spreading ground cover. Strangly enough also the airy euphorbia cyparissias feels happy in it although all my books say that it grows in dryer conditions.
In the shadier parts grows the Golden Saxifrage (Chrysoplenium alternifolium and the oppositifolium), although I've seen them naturally growing along brooks in some European forests in soil with contains a lot of humus.

At the moment I only have two pictures of the plants mentioned here:

The Euphorbia cyparissias and the Chrysoplenium alternifolium which for me form nice ground covers.