Golden Creeping Jenny

Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Groundcover

Height or Length at Maturity: 1-2″

Width at Maturity: 1-2’+
Spacing: 12-24″ for mass planting

Growth Habit / Form: Mat-Forming, Dense, Spreading/Trailing

Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast

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Fragrant Flowers: N/A

Foliage Color: Bright Golden Yellow, Orange cast in Winter

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Sun Needs: Shade, Morning Sun with Afternoon Shade, Filtered or Dappled Sun

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Well Drained or Moderately Drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

We just can’t get enough Golden Creeping Jenny in our gardens! Though it’s a super-fast grower that quickly fills a space, its soft vines make Creeping Jenny very easy to manage and keep in bounds. The bright golden yellow foliage is a wonderful contrast to other plants in the garden or in pots. Looks especially nice around plants with red, burgundy, purple or dark green foliage. In cooler climates the foliage turns orange during winter. Though it doesn’t look like it would be cold hardy, Creeping Jenny can handle temperatures down to 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Because it’s so colorful, quickly fills a space, and is low maintenance, we use Creeping Jenny extensively in our gardens as a groundcover, border, spiller over walls, or as an underplanting for shrubs and trees. Perfect for use between widely-spaced stepping stones. It’s also ideal for planting in pots or hanging baskets, where it spills over the edges. It tolerates wet soils so we even have it growing in pots situated in the margins of our garden pond. A fine addition to shade gardens, yellow theme gardens, woodland and Asian theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 18 to 24 inches apart for mass plantings

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Growing Preferences

Creeping Jenny will grow in a wide range of moist to damp soils of average to even low fertility. In our gardens it does best in part shade though will tolerate full sun with adequate moisture. With 4 to 5 hours of sun per day it holds its golden color throughout the season. In shade the foliage color is chartreuse to lime green. USDA Zones 4a-9b Find Your Zone >

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First time using Wilson Bros! I am so impressed with the quality of the plants and the excellent packing! I have ordered many times from other online plant sites and NONE have EVER arrived in such excellent shape! I will use WILSON BROS AGAIN!————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

Online ordering was quick and efficient process. The plants were shipped and arrived within a week of ordering. The packing protected the plants and all the plants were healthy and well rooted for planting. Love the plant selections available to order.—————————————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

The creeping Jenny we received were larger and healthier looking than anything we had been able to find locally. They are planted and look like they will be ready to go next Spring.——————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

We planted all 90 creeping jenny plants . Every one arrived in very good condition . Not one plant was damaged. And all are planted and doing quite well .———————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

They were a good size upon arrival. Watered and planted right away. Already seeing growth within a few weeks.————————————We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂

Received in good condition
Thanks!——————————-We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG

Ordered Creeping Jenny for a spot that would not hold any plants, grass, etc. It’s growing like a weed! We’ve had tons of rain so the watering has been easy. The plants have already tripled in size in only 6 weeks. Very pleased. The shipping was so professional; I order by shipping 90 percent of the time as we’re a rural area.————————————-We are so glad you are pleased! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG

Thanks for asking. They are doing great, spreading like I hoped.————————————-We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG

The Creeping Jenny I received were packed well and in excellent condition upon arrival–and they were sent at the time I specified. I have since planted them, and they are doing well! I would, certainly, order from Wilson Brothers again!——————————————————Hi Carol, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Golden Creeping Jenny. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words!
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens

Plants arrived quickly and were beautiful. I took them to my cabin on Lookout Mtn in Georgia and planted them. They have done well. ———————— WBG Reply: Hi John – Thanks for your review of the Golden Creeping Jenny and glad to hear they’re doing well for you there in the north Georgia mountain area. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. We’re at your service! – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens

I am currently in the process of “taming” a large woodland garden. Creeping Jenny is my go to plant and this source is one of the best for quality and price I highly recommend this product from this supplier.

The creeping Jenny came very well packaged and looks nice and healthy and golden

Very nice and healthy plants. Had to rip them apart from each other because they were growing together in the flat!