Ericaceous trailing plants?

I now have a pieris and a camelia both in large pots. I would like to know that if there are any trailing perennials that could accompany them. I already 3 gaultheria that I intend to incorporate at some point. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

G.

 

Lithodora would be happy in acid soil.
However, check out convolvulous maritima.....trailing plant with velvety purple blue flowers all summer.
Arabis, flowers of white or pink, forming an evergreen trailer, trailing campanulas like Birch Hybrid, aubretia, alyssum saxatile makes mounds that tend to creep and cascade a little.
What about ophiopogon nigrescens? A black grasslike perennial that makes evergreen ground cover...flowers too. A different and fascinating “floor” to many plants Tulbhagia violacea similarly presents a different theme....silver/grey/blue grassy foliage and pink flowers. Goes well with the black grass above

 

Personally I'd not plant anything else in the pots, unless they are totally massive.
They will just gobble up all the nutrient and water.

Overplanting is ok for a one summer display that is going to be discarded at the end of the season, or broken up.
But for permanent, or at least semi permanent planting I think one or other of the plants are going to suffer.

 

Good thinking @pete

 

That’s why I suggested those plants....they take minimal moisture and nutrients yet help provide both attractive base cover and keep roots of main plants cool
In addition, I replied to a request for suggestions

 

I replied to a suggestion also, and gave my opinion.
We all have different opinions, none of us are "right" as such.
Isn't that what it is all about, opinions.

 

Its food for thought at least. At the moment the plants are still fairly small and in interim pots. It might be a year or two before they go up into their final pots. That will also give me time to find some pots I like..



G.

 

Always good to have options anyway. I can see the merits both ways

I have come to appreciate plant associations in containers more these days....from a perspective previously of single subjects only. They can make a planting more attractive, interesting and help disguise a less than perfect container.

However, a formal structural plant standing alone in an equally structural container needs no such enhancement I think.