This plant prefers moist to well-drained soil. While it can tolerate some dryness, you will want to water it frequently.

This plant can grow in sandy soil. If grown as an annual, no fertilizer is needed. As a perennial, it can be fed with liquid fertilizer once, before spring growth appears.

This cute little creeping perennial form a flat carpet of tiny green leaves, smothered with starry, soft-blue flowers all summer long. Ideal for planting between paving stones, in the rock garden or as a lawn substitute in the ‘real’ garden or in a miniature or fairy garden. This plant is well worth growing as an annual in cold-winter regions. Plants are easily ripped apart into small pieces to make new plantings. As it spreads you will need to control its growth in a smaller container.

For more information please see our article on choosing, locating, planting and maintaining ground cover plants.