Flowering ground covers
The term "ground cover" often conjures up visions of boring patches of plain green foliage-adequate for simply filling space but hardly satisfying for the color-craving gardener. Fortunately, numerous spreading perennials do an equally good job [... more]
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Planting Ground Covers
Nothing fills a vacant space and minimizes garden maintenance like herbaceous ground covers. Steadily gaining ground in the first few seasons, these plants can transform a dull space into a rich tapestry of leaf shapes, textures, and colors. They ... [... more]
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Plants for Pathways
Like other thymes, woolly thyme is fairly easy to care for. It requires very little water once it has become established, and as for cutting it back, just an annual haircut tidies it up and promotes fuller growth. Give it full sun and welldrained ... [... more]
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Moss Makes a Lush Carpet
When my wife and I first pulled up to what was then a sectionedoff patch of heavily wooded land, I said, "This is it!" She looked at me and said, "Huh? It looks like an overgrown forest." "Exactly," I said, and the more I [... more]
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Covering Ground With Creeping Plants
Sometimes it seems that designing a garden is like solving a complex puzzle. That's actually one of the challenges of gardening I enjoy most-finding beautiful and robust plants to suit a site. And, in areas that can be the most confounding-such ... [... more]
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Thyme, the Fragrant Ground Cover
On early summer evenings, I follow the bees and butterflies to carpets of white, pink, and lavender thyme flowers that blanket pathways and rocky nooks in my garden. I can't resist stroking the colorful mats, releasing a heady perfume that ... [... more]
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