When is the best time to plant ground covers?

Question

When is the best time to plant ground covers?

Answer 1

Ground covers can be transferred from the nursery to the garden at any time of the year, but it is obviously easier to get them established with a minimum of effort if they are moved during the rainy season. However, this is not always practical and transplanting them during the dry months of the year usually calls only for some shading for the first couple of weeks after they are moved, thorough soaking immediately after planting and regular watering thereafter until the roots are established. Deciduous plants are usually planted out during winter when they are bare of leaves, but even these do not suffer when moved at other seasons, provided they are shaded and watered adequately until they are settled in.

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Answer 2

Basically, you can plant them anytime, depending on how much time you have to tend to them, which family or cultivar they're from, which gardening zone you're in & if you're planting them in full sun, partial shade or full shade.

For example, a shade-loving ground cover planted in full sun in the SE of the USA at the end of Spring/beginning of Summer will burn up & not grow, even with lots of watering.

Your best bet would be to ask at a local nursery, or garden center about a native plant that does well in the area of the country that you live in & that fits the sun/shade/soil conditions in your yard.

Good luck!!!!