Goodenia ovata Gold Cover

Position and soil. The supplier's page gives full sun to part shade, and the ANPSA profile says all forms of hop goodenia are hardy in most soils in sun or part shade.

Water. The sources differ. The supplier calls Gold Cover drought tolerant with low water needs, especially when well mulched. The ANPSA profile, writing of a completely prostrate form of the species without naming it, says that form does not take extended dry conditions well. No independent reference read rates Gold Cover itself.

Frost. The supplier lists it as tolerating light frost. South Australia's Plant Selector gives moderate frost for the species, not for this form.

Pruning. The APS NSW profile suggests tip pruning the ground-covering form of hop goodenia to thicken it.

Propagation. The supplier produces it from cuttings, and the ANPSA and APS NSW profiles call the species very easy to strike from cuttings.

The supplier's page puts it to work on banks and behind retaining walls, in mass plantings, along borders and in containers on patios and courtyards, and calls it ideal for weed suppression and for harsh growing conditions. It gives no planting distance; worked from its own 1 m width, plants about 1 m apart would meet. The APS NSW profile records Gold Cover by name as one of the species' ground-covering forms. For the upright shrub and its wildlife value, see the hop goodenia page; for the unnamed flat form growers list as prostrate, see prostrate hop goodenia.

Gold Cover is sold under that name in the supplier's Australia's Wonders range; no reference read names who bred or selected it. Its size, drought and frost figures come from the supplier, not from an independent reference, so treat them as the supplier's claims. Quote it by name when comparing growers, since unnamed prostrate forms of hop goodenia are listed separately and may not be the same plant. Stock moving between states travels under the state and territory biosecurity rules on moving plants and soil.