creeping Jenny

Mat-forming Lysimachia nummularia (creeping jenny) is a hardy, low-maintenance grower providing year-round nectar sources for wildlife.

Mat-forming Lysimachia nummularia (creeping jenny) is a hardy, lowmaintenance grower providing year-round nectar sources for wildlife.

Plant it out with a range of tall and short bog plants, such as groundhugging Lysimachia nummularia (creeping jenny) and proud Iris ensata (Japanese water iris), for maximum impact.

In one corner of the garden, I have inherited someone else's confection, a strange but effective mix of lily of the valley, lamium and golden creeping Jenny. By July, this medley will be a train wreck, but for now it sits as a riposte to the May moaner.

Use a showstopper as the centre plant and then use trailers, such as creeping Jenny or ivy, around the outside of your pots, filling the gaps with pretty violas and pansies.

Creeping jenny (Lysimachia Aurea) also has yellow-green leaves and is often used to cascade over the edges of containers and baskets.

For example, the silver of Helichrysum, cream and green trailing ivies, golden creeping Jenny (Lysimachia 'Aurea') and Euonymus 'Emerald 'n' Gold'.

Dark-leaved varieties such as Chocolate Ruffles look especially good underplanted with the ground-hugging dead nettle, Lamium 'Beacon Silver' and the golden blooms of Lysimachia 'Aurea', creeping Jenny.

"The Emerson is good for throwing dirt on vining weeds, like creeping jenny," he says.

Pots of Creeping Jenny and ornamental peppers fill the nearby beds.

Creeping jenny (Lysimachia nummularia 'Goldilocks'): light green leaves.