Using plants as ground covering is a great alternative to a traditional lawn. There's a beautiful plant, though, that you should avoid installing at all costs.

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Ground covers can be a lifesaver for bringing color to your gardens and suppressing and outcompeting weeds. Opting for native ground covers that appeal to your local pollinators and birds is even ...

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From weed suppression to visual cohesion, ground covers are the hard-working backbone of your garden. Here are our favorite ...

In the garden In her book “Plant This, Not That,” Elise Howard offers more than 200 substitution ideas for invasive plants.

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 ...

These fifteen shade tolerant plants are as colourful as can be, adding brightness to darker spots in your garden.

Gardeners hear a lot about invasive species and the damage they do to local ecosystems and native plant communities. But native plants can also be aggressive, bullying out weaker, less assertive ...