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Japanese Spurge

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Japanese Spurge
Rapid-growing, these ground covers or low shrubs are perfect for partly shady areas, especially under trees, in moist or dry sites.

 


Japanese Spurge or Pachysandra terminalis: This is one of the most functional plants used in today's landscape. It is a rapid-growing groundcover. Plants are 9 to 12 inches high.

Japanese Spurge, more commonly known as Pachysandra, is an evergreen for ground covering. In many shaded parts of the garden it is impossible to grow grass, yet it is desirable to have some sort of green ground covering.

Japanese Spurge,
an ideal shade groundcover
Pachysandra terminalis, a hardy groundcover, spends its first year sending out thick white roots underground & not showing all that much above-ground growth.

Japanese Spurge ( Pachysandra terminalis )
Japanese Star Jasmine ( Trachelospermum asiaticum )
Japanese Stewartia ( Stewartia pseudocamellia ) ...

Try Japanese Spurge, Pachysandra terminalis, as Shade Groundcover
For shady woodland or city gardens, pachysandra, Japanese spurge, is often chosen. Why is this plant the most widely planted shade groundcover in America?

Japanese Spurge
Japanese Spurge, Pachysandra Pachysandra terminalis
Jasmine
Pink Jasminum polyanthum
Star or Confederate Trachelospermum jasminoides
Winter Jasminum nudiflorum Also Jasminum polyanthum (see Pink)
Jetbead
Black Rhodotypos scandens ...

Variegated Pachysandra or Japanese Spurge
Green Carpet Pachysandra or Japanese Spurge
Pachysandra terminalis 'Variegata' ...

Pachysandra terminalis
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evergreen wild ginger) Bergenia (Saxifrage) Convallaria (Lily-of-the-Valley) Epimedium Euonymus fortunei (Wintercreeper Euonymus) Galax Galium Hedera (English Ivy) Hypericum (St. John's Wort) Juniperus (Junipers) Liriope Pachysandra (Japanese Spurge) ...

Japanese spurge (Pachysandra terminalis)
Japanese tree lilac (Syringa reticulata, Syringa vulgaris)
Jasmine (Jasminum species)
Java fern, swordfern (Microsorium pteropus)
Jelly palm (Butia capitata) ...

See also: Pachysandra, Spurge, Green, Evergreen, May