Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Base of a large tree with exposed roots. - Babariba/Shutterstock Do you have an area in your yard with trees that's difficult to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman watering her flower garden with a hose - Mariia Boiko/Shutterstock Using a ground cover plant can be a wonderful and ...

In the right environmental conditions, this shrub of the Cistus variety can bring beauty to your garden all throughout the ...

Best bets for ground covers to brighten up any shady area. If you have a shady spot in your garden, you know how difficult it is to choose plants that will thrive, especially when it comes to ground ...

These 51 flowering ground cover plants can transform your garden by adding color texture and life to bare areas while being ...

They’re not the tallest plants in the forest, the brightest nor the showiest, yet groups of tiny ground covers still stop Elyse Jurgen on hikes. She snapped a photo in Lancaster County Park of a mix ...

When planning a garden, I always start by thinking in layers. Varying plant heights not only adds visual depth but also creates opportunities for sustainable gardening practices and supports habitat ...

If you're looking for the perfect ground cover for year-round color in your garden, it's hard to beat sedum, also known as stonecrop. A standout hybrid in the 300-species Sedum genus is Sedum fine ...

I love ground covers! I did not realize until recently that there is so much to be learned about this topic. The universal ground cover is, of course, turfgrass. People have been using grasses of one ...

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 ...

Keeping up with a traditional lawn can feel like a never-ending chore. If you’re looking for ways to cut down on yard work without sacrificing a lush, green look, ground covers might be just what you ...