Good border plants

[TgM]

I've got an area between my deck & pond that I am trying to do something with.

Thinking about filling it with dirt and making it a border with some plants like creeping jenny to grow over the rocks into the water.

Ideas anyone on what else to put in there? I'll get a pic up in a bit.

 

[Waterbug]

Here's my San Jose pond with geraniums.

But pretty much any ground cover would work. It's kind of cool that the plant tip rot as they hit the water so you get this kind of trimmed look without actually having to trim.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Thinking about filling it with dirt and making it a border with some plants like creeping jenny to grow over the rocks into the water.

I would do that but add Sweet Woodruff. Such a great ground cover and next Spring it will spread between the rocks and look very natural. It stays green right to winter and was the first thing to grow this spring. It gets little white flowers on it for about a month. Mine was looking really cool after it grew between the cracks of the rocks this year but I had to take out my stream to put in a bog, so next year it should look great. It also fills in nicely and spreads, but spreading is easily controlled since it has shallow roots. Here it is at the bottom of the photo:

and some close ups:

here's how it looks most of the year:

 

[j.w]

Some flowing grassy plants hanging over and maybe some creeping Thyme. Lots of little creeping sedums too.
Sedums:
Well tried to load a photo but it won't work now for some reason.

 

[taherrmann4]

My only concern with filling it in with dirt is that it appears in your pic that it could wash into your pond unless you can bring the liner up between the dirt and your rocks there. You could also use ajuga and it will spread, produces blue flowers in the spring. If it gets shade you could put in lily of the valley, sedum, or even annuals.

 

[TgM]

I could bring up the liner but wasn't planning to. Thought I'd keep the soil just below the pond level.