What Plants To Grow Between Flagstone
The DIY Flagstone pathway is one of our most popular posts! One of the most common questions, is what plants to grow between flagstone? Over the last 3 years it has been a little bit of a process…so here is the scoop on what we planted, what worked and what didn’t!
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Plants For A Flagstone Path
I have always loved a very natural flagstone pathway filled with creeping plants. So when we decided to lay a flagstone path, I knew I wanted plants! What kind was another story. After doing a little research, we decided to plant creeping thyme. It is a beautiful low growing plant with small purple flowers. It is commonly planted between flagstone, so thought it would be a great fit!
Here is a picture of our flagstone, before any plants.
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Creeping Thyme
We actually have two flagstone paths in our yard. One small flagstone path in front of our garden gate, then a long flagstone walkway in our front yard.
We planted creeping thyme in both flagstone walkways. It was amazing to see the difference. It did awesome in the path to our garden because it was full sun, but not so well upfront where it is partly shaded.
Here is the creeping thyme in bloom by our garden gate. So pretty!
The creeping thyme as I mentioned did not do well in the front pathway and eventually died off. So the following summer we decided to plant Irish Moss, which would do much better in part shade.
Irish Moss
The irish moss was planted and doing really well. To help it fill in faster, you might want more than one flat…but it’s not cheap, so we started with just a little.
Good thing we didn’t plant more, because when we left for vacation last summer, a heat wave hit and killed all our irish moss. Yup…back to square one! Well at least this time I knew we had the right plant.
That was it….no more setbacks, the next time I planted between the flagstone pathway was going to be it! First of all because it was expensive to continue buying plants and second of all, because I really wanted my pathway to fill in. The main requirement would be a dripline system before I planted again. I didn’t want to take any more chances.
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Try #3
Third time’s a charm, you know what…it was! We planted more irish moss, installed a dripline system and it is finally filling in.
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Here is a picture from this summer with everything planted.
If there is one thing I learned, is it takes time to fill in a flagstone pathway (at least if you are on a budget), and even longer if you don’t keep it watered! I will definitely post more pictures next summer to show you the progress. I did buy a pack of irish moss seeds on Amazon, it was really cheap and thought it was worth a shot to see if it would help fill in the gaps faster. It is too soon for a verdict on the seeds. I will post updates in my facebook group…so join here to stay connected!
I have weeded in between the flagstone a few times, I did again before I re-planted the irish moss. Once everything fills in, you won’t have to weed much! We also added a little more dirt to fill in the cracks, the dirt does settle over time. Again once your irish moss or creeping thyme fills in, you won’t have to do that either. Just a little maintenance while the plants grow.
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It is not very often that you see pictures of the plants in a flagstone pathway filling in, so I hope you find this helpful. Typically you see gorgeous walkways all filled in with perfect landscaping…well I am hear to tell you that it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a little persistence…but it can happen! So stick with it!
Our flagstone pathway is well on its way, after a few minor setbacks.
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