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This flowering evergreen ground cover is hardy from zones 3 to 8 and produces pretty pink blooms every spring. Here's how to ...
Tired of constant weeding? Discover the natural solution with ground cover plants! These low-growing wonders act as living ...
Before you turn to chemical treatments, one way to eliminate weeds from your garden is by growing ground covers. Learn the ...
Finding an attractive ground cover plant that's deer-resistant and will also lure pollinators into your yard is not that ...
Ophiopogon, aka mondograss, is an evergreen low-growing, grass-like ground cover for shade or part shade. It grows in clumps but spreads by rhizomes to form a solid mass.
Traditionally, when we think ground cover we think evergreen, low-lying, spreading plants like vinca and English ivy. In fact, these are two plants to avoid unless you place them in small ...
We like them, but they die back in the winter. We’d like to plant some type of evergreen ground cover in between the daylilies. Do you have any suggestions for good plants?
Any ground cover bed will need to be weeded regularly. “The plants can’t keep out weeds by themselves,” Yiesla said. “There are weed seeds in the air and in the soil.” ...
Spacing can range from 6 inches to 2 feet. On average, if plants are placed 4 inches apart, 100 plants will cover about 11 square feet.
Whether or not you use a weed barrier, you should apply a pre-emergent weed killer like Preen, and then cover between plants with generous mulching (three to four inches thick). If you skimp on ...
Many evergreen ground cover plants, including some of those mentioned above, are native to the dappled shade of our eastern woodlands. These plants also like soils that are acidic and rich in humus.