Stepables®
STEPABLES® are tough, earth-friendly, easy-to-maintain perennials that take foot traffic. These little green heroes can liberate your landscape from that not-so-green mower, cut down on the use of chemicals and create lovely beds of color! Plus, they're quick to foster friendly habitats for all kinds of great beneficial critters. Smaller carbon footprint, anyone?
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Common Name: Purple New Zealand Bur
Low growing mats of purple, fern-like foliage are suitable for sun or part shade. Brown blooms with white stamens arise on short stalks above the evergreen foliage in early summer, followed by interesting thornless burr-like fruits in fall..
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Common Name: New Zealand Bur
Fine, evergreen foliage forms a mat of steel blue that is very eye-catching in the garden. Greenish flowers are produced on short stems in summer, followed by attractive mahogany-red burr-like fruits in the fall.
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Common Name: Sweet Flag
Dwarf fans of bright golden leaves. Colorful evergreen groundcover or highlight for a rock garden. Moisture loving plants that form mats of stiff, narrow bladed leaves. Can tolerate clay soil. Deer resistant.
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Common Name: Dwarf Bugleweed
Small, narrow purplish-green colored leaves with spikes of blue flowers. Evergreen. Often used as a groundcover, bugleweed is happy in conditions ranging from drought to bogs. Can also tolerate clay soil. Attractive to butterflies. Deer resistant.
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Common Name: Pink Pussytoes
Bright gray-green leaves with silvery undersides form a low creeping mat that sets off short stems of fuzzy pink flowers in late spring. Evergreen, drought tolerant, deer resistant! Native. Host plant for Virginia Lady Butterfly. Light foot traffic.
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Common Name: Corsican Sandwort
Tiny leaves on minute, creeping stems cover the ground and surrounding rocks like green paint. Tiny white flowers appear in mid-spring. Prefers a cool, lightly shaded position. Good for rockeries.
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Common Name: Sea Thrift
Tiny mounds of compact gray-green tufts with small flowers that are light pink in color and look like little pom-poms. Dainty enough to charm a fairy. Perfect plant for pocket areas, rock gardens or near a pond edge.
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Common Name: Sea Thrift
Luscious little hot pink blooms over burgundy to smoky-green, shiny grass-like foliage. Foliage is more green in summer and returns to burgundy in fall.
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