{"id":1679,"date":"2026-04-22T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:29:56","slug":"cape-covers-that-help-create-a-living-floral-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Cape covers that help create a living floral carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is never\u00a0a good\u00a0time\u00a0for a garden to be without a\u00a0cover of\u00a0leaves\u00a0blanketing the\u00a0ground\u00a0in your garden. Whether faced with\u00a0a cold winter, fierce summer sun, drought, wind, or torrential rains, the right plant cover can keep the garden\u00a0intact and\u00a0add beauty\u00a0all\u00a0year-round. They are the problem solvers of the garden, spreading out where nothing else will grow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the practicality they introduce, ground-covers provide a habitat for beneficial insects, including pollinators and predatory insects that help control pest populations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Blue daisy bush<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Scientifically known as the\u00a0Felicia\u00a0amelloides. There is little to rival this\u00a0shade\u00a0of blue in your garden. Performing best in the day-long\u00a0sun,\u00a0the blue daisy bush\u00a0retains\u00a0a soft, mounding form well-suited\u00a0for\u00a0border edges, banks, and rockeries\u00a0that spread throughout the\u00a0garden\u00a0bed.\u00a0The Blue\u00a0daisy bush\u00a0thrives\u00a0well in\u00a0windy places and\u00a0sandy\u00a0soils and\u00a0will tolerate a moderate frost\u00a0during the cold months.\u00a0Perfect for the Cape rainy winters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trailing Phlox<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

The Trailing Phlox is a magical ground-cover that performs beautifully in both sun and shade, in both<\/span> inland and coastal areas. This ground-cover will hug the ground, forming low mounds that will spread to cover the space in your garden. Single white flowers with a characteristic yellow centre, growing in the leaf axil, often tucked among the leaves. There are often a few flowers seen year-round, but the main bright flowering season is spring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Buttons or\u00a0Knoppies<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

One of the most charming ground-cover selections to add to your garden. <\/span>This versatile and delightful evergreen ground-cover forms soft, feathery mounds in sun or <\/span>semi-shade<\/span>.<\/span> The button ground-covers grow to around 20\u201340 mm tall but are more commonly low-growing with a spreading habit. Bright sun-yellow flowers are on show for most of the year, with the main flush from spring to mid-autumn. These groundcovers stand well above attractive feathery grey-green leaves. <\/span>Commonly found along the Eastern Cape coast from Mossel Bay to East London, it <\/span>does well<\/span> in both summer and winter rainfall regions.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trailing Gazania<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

With green and grey-leaved varieties, most people see these trailing Gazanias as just an old standby, to use where nothing else will. They are some of the toughest ground-covers doing well in humid climates, and thriving in the dry, shallow soils along the coast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is never\u00a0a good\u00a0time\u00a0for a garden to be without a\u00a0cover of\u00a0leaves\u00a0blanketing the\u00a0ground\u00a0in your garden. Whether faced with\u00a0a cold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapyom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}