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If you’re searching for a low-maintenance, eco-friendly alternative to traditional grass lawns, perennials (most often low-growing crop covers) offer stunning and practical solutions. These resilient ...

While creeping and spreading plants make beautiful ground covers for flower beds, natural areas, or foundation plantings, they also bring lots of charm when used to fill container gardens and pots.

Cobwebs on plants raise gardeners' hackles. Is it spider mites? Or just icky eight-legged creatures getting too comfy on our growing things? Yet cobwebs are also a delightfully creepy and normal part ...

Northern exposures, beneath tree canopies or spots influenced by the neighbor's huge ficus hedge are all challenging to succulents. They're too often left bare and problematic in the very dry garden.

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The more I write about gardening and learn about our environment, the more I am converting my lawn from grass to beds of perennials or annual flower beds, patios and ground covers. Little by little, I ...

Question: We are looking for some ground covers that stay green all winter long. We have a steep slope behind the garage that currently is filled with clumps of daylilies. We like them, but they die ...