How to Choose a Ground Cover for Rockeries
A rockery provides the perfect place to plant a ground cover for an overall effect of flowers and foliage. Flowering plants such as rockcress add spring color, and woody ground covers such as Cotoneaster dammeri provide winter interest. Choose ... [... more]
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Success with Wild Flowers & Plants
 Any gardener can give a home to flowers, climbers, shrubs, and trees that usually grow wild in fields, forests, wetlands, and roadsides. After all, native plants have the advantage of already being hardy survivors in their indigenous areas. This eye- [... more]
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Indoor Bonsai: How to Succeed with Bonsai Grown Inside ...
Growing native wildflowers is the most beautiful and carefree way to bring the natural landscape into your backyard. In this handbook, discover the beautiful wildflowers and foliage plants that best suit your natural garden, from woodland beds to prairie [... more]
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Wildflower Gardens; 60 Spectacular Plants and How to Use ...
A full-color, reader-friendly guide to creating low-maintenance wildflower gardens in any region and any garden condition.Joining forces with nature, anyone can create a wildflower garden, from an untamed meadow to a formal design. This easy-to-use guide [... more]
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Death's Domain
This discworld map reveals the house and garden that Death built. It shows the golf course that's not so much crazy as insane, as well as the dark gardens. You can also find out the reason why Death can't understand rockeries, and what [... more]
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How to Use a Ground Cover in Your Yard or Garden
Ground covers are versatile plants that can fit into any garden style and situation. They can be used to fill in empty spaces along paths, fences, and rockeries. Or, use ground covers to provide a third layer of plantings below trees and ... [... more]
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How to Grow Common Aubrieta (Aubrieta Deltoidea)
Aubrieta makes a colorful splash in early spring. It is a mat-forming, evergreen perennial, and its flowers - in shades of purple (such as Purple Cascade) and blue (such as J.S. Baker) - cover the plant. It grows well in rockeries, at the top of ... [... more]
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How to Grow Ice Plant (Lampranthus)
Ice plant is an evergreen, succulent ground cover for warm weather climates. Its flowers come in bright shades of pink, orange, yellow and red. It's a good cover for sunny slopes and rockeries or along paths. Ice plant thrives in USDA zones 9 and 10. [... more]
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How to Grow Vinca Minor
Vinca is an evergreen, trailing ground cover that has flowers in early spring (and sporadically through summer and fall) in white or shades of lavender. Plant it along shady paths or rockeries to fill in for early-blooming plants that fade later ... [... more]
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How to Grow Irish or Scotch Moss (Sagina Subulata)
Though not a true moss, Irish moss (sometimes called Scotch moss) forms a tight mound like moss does, and it works well as a ground cover around stepping-stones and in rockeries. Irish moss thrives in USDA zones 6 to 9. How to Grow Irish or ... [... more]
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How to Grow Rock Cress (Arabis)
Pink or white fragrant flowers on cushion-forming plants are a feature of this spring-blooming plant. It's good for rockeries and sunny garden pockets. Shear the plant back after flowering using scissors or bypass pruners. How to Grow Rock Cress ... [... more]
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Step-By-Step Ponds, Pools and Rockeries
Water can be the way to realize your dreams for a very special garden spot. No space is too large or too small, too dramatic or unsightly. The beautiful full-color photos throughout will inspire you to create pools, ponds, waterfalls and streams, just to [... more]
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