Mazus Species, Miquel's Mazus

This plant seems to spread quickly! It's a bit yellow at the center, but has many new green shoots, so I'm guessing that it's going to b...Read Moree fine. The flowers are lovely, and it's forms a thick mat. Mine is growing on a west-facing sloped rock garden, which gets some dappled shade and it seems to be doing well.

I just got this plant last year on end of season sale and I love it! It grows fast and makes beautiful little lavender purple flowers tha...Read Moret make me think of lobelia. If you get down on the ground and actually smell it, it has a pleasant sweet fragrance too!

Grows and flowers well in mostly shade as well as sun. Outcompetes other weeds. This is one plant you put in the ground and just forget a...Read Morebout. Takes care of itself.
Evergreen in zone 6

I love this plant. Bought as a marginal pond plant, it has survived my zone 5 winter with slight yellowing. Has been blooming since mid A...Read Morepril, and continues to bloom. I placed it in pond level with dirt, and it seems very happy. Likes full sun, in the water. I hope to divide this and spread the beautiful blue blooms all around my pond.

Figures - I thought they were zone 4 hardy - seem like a lot of sources says that they are zone 4 hardy but none have survived winter her...Read Moree in Minnesota.

I bought one of these last year from a nursery while on a gardening trip to zone 7-8 to try out in a blue stone walkway. It is doing fan...Read Moretastic. Growing in limestone and sand, between the blue stones, in strong sun, and it has multiplied, and now flowering. I live in 9a, and I avoid watering. Go figure. I am ready to buy more and fill in the rest of the pathway. It is a great plant.

Grows in full sun to partial shade. This is a very low growing, spreading groundcover that forms a thick mat of tiny leaves with tiny pu...Read Morerplish-blue flowers that bloom from spring into summer. Prefers well-drained soil.

Was given spring 2003 a small start of this, it quickly spread from 2 inches to 23 inches!!! blooms are darling little lavender with spec...Read Moreks. It easily tolerated my path thru the garden where I walk, without being totally crushed or killed. Kept on blooming and growing.

A wonderful little groundcover for the shade. Tolerates foot traffic. Mine is growing under a pine tree in clay soil. It's a little too r...Read Moreambunctious to go between my pavers, though. It needs a bit more room. Watch it when it does its growth spurt in the spring and trim it back, or it will get into the lawn! Its purple flowers in late spring are just darling.

This plant grows anywhere, yet is not invasive. Thrives in full shade, full sun, severe drought (no water for 3 months during summer of ...Read More'99), and underwater for a month in '01. I strongly recommend to everyone. Find someone who grows it for a start: the few nurseries locally that carry it charge $8-9 for a quart pot.

Foliage in Zone 6 turns red during winter; back to green in spring.

Prefers moist, rich soils. Foliage is evergreen in warm winter climates. Excellent ground cover for small areas. Also effective grown bet...Read Moreween stepping stones or in rock gardens. Tolerates foot traffic.