Spring Blooming Groundcovers
Spring blooming groundcovers bring fresh color and seasonal interest to the garden, spreading across the landscape with carpets of flowers as the growing season begins. Their blooms range from soft whites and pinks to shades of purple, blue, and yellow, often appearing above foliage that helps fill spaces between shrubs, pathways, and borders. These plants add texture and continuity while creating a space that feels bright, inviting, and full throughout the changing season, helping transition the garden from early spring into the abundance of late spring and beyond.

Primula vulgaris 'Belarina Lively Lilac'
Deciduous groundcover with fully double white blooms brushed and edged in lilac and purple. Forms a compact mounded habit and grows 4 to 6 inches tall. Ideal for borders, containers, and woodland garden displays. Zones: 4 to 8.
Our Picks
These low growers knit the garden together while filling early gaps with flowers. Each spreads well without overwhelming its neighbors, softening paths, edges, and rock gardens.

BUGLEWEED (Ajuga)
Bugleweed

CORAL BELLS (Heuchera)
Red Lightning Coral Bells

ANEMONE
Wood Anemone ‘Robinsoniana’

CROCUS
Whitewell Purple Crocus
BERGENIA
Flirt Bergenia
PRIMROSE (Primula)
Asiatic Primrose

CREEPING PHLOX (Phlox)
Ruby Riot Creeping Phlox

CRANESBILL (Geranium)
Purple Cranesbill

MANZANITA (Arctostaphylos)
Pacific Mist Manzanita

GENTIAN (Gentiana)
Trumpet Gentian

POACHED EGG PLANT (Limnanthes)
Poached Egg Plant

PERIWINKLE (Vinca)
Greater Periwinkle

LITHODORA
Grace Ward Lithodora

SPURGE (Euphorbia)
Myrtle Spurge

CYCLAMEN
Album Winter Cyclamen
ROCK CRESS (Aubretia)
Axcent Light Blue Rock Cress

PHYLLIOPSIS
Sugar Plum Hillier Phylliopsis

NAVELWORT (Omphalodes)
Starry Eyes Creeping Navelwort

DEADNETTLE (Lamium)
Orchid Frost Spotted Deadnettle

BARRENWORT (Epimedium)
Cambridge Barrenwort


