A variety of flowers and foliage growing as ground cover on a slope. - Beekeepx/Shutterstock If you want to create a beautiful spring garden, including a variety of interesting textures and ...

Ground covers — low-growing plants that mat, sprawl, trail, or clump on the ground — play a valuable role in the landscape. They fill in gaps in flower beds, adding color, texture, and depth.

If you want to create a thriving, low-maintenance garden, ground covers are the way to go. These plants help out by suppressing weeds and controlling erosion, but many ground covers are also really ...

* What it is: Candytuft is one of the showiest short, spreading groundcovers when it's blooming with its snow-white dainty flowers for about three weeks in April. Dark-green, small-leafed foliage can ...

If you have a standard lawn of grass outside your home, you may have had occasion to wonder if our ancestors were crazy. How in the world did grass become the de facto ground covering? Grass is a pain ...

Could you give me some suggestions for planting fall bulbs so they have their best impact in the landscape? There are many ways to use bulbs effectively in the landscape. To begin with, they look best ...