GardenGnome
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could I grow flowers mini flowers here?

In the drive way I have rocks with alittle soil mixed in.
Do you think I could get (johhny jump ups?) To grow with the little grass atleast and spread at a good rate?

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I am not in CA but I don't see why not but you should water at least twice a week in the evening.

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IN the driveway? Does that mean you drive over it? Grass can survive that. I have seen permeable parking surfaces meant for grass to grow through. But not much in the way of flowers survives being compressed by a ton or two of car.

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My drive way is big all the green spots we don't drive on or really walk on. The rock area could hold 20 cars.

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Sorry thought I posted pics.
[img]https://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj565/ericmgilson/2012-02-09_14-54-06_997.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj565/ericmgilson/2012-02-09_14-54-17_913.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj565/ericmgilson/2012-02-14_07-28-00_887.jpg[/img]
We don't really go on these parts.
I picked up some seeds and have them on the heating mat.
I'm still looking for some other low growing flowers that will reseed them selfs.

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If it were me, I think I would plant it with dwarf plumbago (ceratostigma)

https://www.daytonnursery.com/encyclopedia/perennials/ceratostigma.htm

Its an extremely tough hardy ground cover, that spreads from the roots. It tolerates all kinds of soils, sun/shade drought/wet whatever. For me it is a three season plant, with nice green foliage in spring, gets covered in little blue flowers for a pretty extended bloom period in late summer/fall, and has really nice bronzy red fall foliage. It drops its leaves in winter here, not sure what it would do for you.

Once established, it would even tolerate a bit of being walked on, though probably not regular foot traffic or car traffic.

If you have gardening friends, all you would need is for somebody to give you a couple divisions of it - trust me, if they have it, they will not mind giving you some! :) That's how I got mine, which fills in the terrible rocky clay soil strip between my driveway and my house. A couple starts will fill in pretty rapidly.

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What about clover? Also thinking thyme if it's sunny enough. Yarrow if you don't mind taller plants, but you can mow them down and eventually train them to hug the ground. I think Johnny jump ups gets spindly if they don't get enough nutrients.

...liliope?

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applestar had a little brain burp there or a typo. She meant liriope.

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Ill look at all those thanks I might do a mix of each to add diffrent colors and ill keep an eye out for the other ones listed.



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