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The best native groundcover plants for your garden | Australian native plants | Gardening Australia

While Australian native groundcovers tend to have a low profile, they are tough, beautiful and useful plants that deserve a higher status in your garden! They can help reduce erosion by binding soil together, repress weed growth, and act like a living mulch. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe Featured Plants: 00:48 | Kidney Weed (Dichondra repens) Forms a low, spreading cover that tolerates shade and can be used as a lawn alternative in low foot traffic areas. Ideal for reducing soil erosion. 00:55 | Native Violet (Viola hederacea) Forms a low, spreading, delicate cover in shady positions and provides a display of purple or white flowers. Ideal for reducing soil erosion. 01:22 | Fan Flower (Scaveola cv.) Suitable for part shade or sunny positions, they form compact mounds that are covered with blue, mauve, pink, or white flowers for most of the year. 01:45 | Fine-leafed Creeping Boobialla (Myoporum parvifolium) Suitable for part shade to full sun, they form a 2-metre-wide carpet with small white flowers in the warmer months. 01:57 | Creeping Boobialla (Myoporum parvifolium) Forms a thick carpet that is useful for supressing weeds. Some forms have a purple tinge to the leaves and white flowers. 02:18 | Grevillea (Grevillea cv.) There are several varieties of low-growing or ‘prostrate’ grevilleas available. They are best grown in sunny positions and do well on a slope or cascading over a retaining wall. 02:33 | Purple Coral Pea (Hardenbergia violacea) Better known as a climber but will happily spread 2-3m wide over the ground if left to do so. They provide plenty of winter and spring colour, available in purple, white and pink variations. Filmed on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country Useful Links https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/fact... https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/fact... https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/fact... ___________________________________________ Gardening Australia is an ABC TV program providing gardening know-how and inspiration. Presented by Australia's leading horticultural experts, Gardening Australia is a valuable resource to all gardeners through the television program, the magazine, books, DVDs and extensive online content. Watch more: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/gard... Facebook:   / gardeningaustralia   Instagram:   / gardeningaustralia   Web: http://www.abc.net.au/gardening ___________________________________________ This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel. Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC's Online Conditions of Use http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3).