Do you have an area in your yard that would benefit from a fast-spreading ground cover that's also shaded for part of the day? While there are plenty of ground cover plants that love shade, there's ...

The lawn went in about 35 years ago; fresh sod carefully laid in a small area framed by a fieldstone wall and lots of trees. The fieldstone wall is still holding strong, its once bright face now ...

Sometimes, typical grass choices just don't cut it when it comes to our lawns. Consider an alternative ground cover option ...

Yard sloping to white fence and flat mowed area. - Mulevich/Shutterstock A sloped yard can be a joy or an ordeal. It can put you eye-level with the treetops and serve as your personal sledding hill in ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's quite easy for ground cover plants to get overlooked with all the gardening choices available. Ground covers offer a lot of benefits to ...

Question. A low-growing yellow flowering plant is being used in medians and similar areas. Can it be used as a home lawn? Answer: Motorists and homeowners can enjoy the attractive yellow flowers of ...

In any landscape development, perennials play a vital role in providing the layer that is both colorful and structural, especially when used boldly as a massing or ground cover. Perennials die back ...

Despite years of encouragement to change water-guzzling landscapes to ones that are more appropriate for a desert, there are still local residents who think their only landscape choices in the Mojave ...

Ground cover: You can’t live with it. You can’t live without it. Some have described ground covers as “garden thugs” or even worse, since they can brutally bully plants in their vicinity, to the point ...