When it comes to landscaping, finding the right groundcover for areas that experience heavy foot traffic can be a challenge. You need plants that are not only beautiful and low-maintenance but also ...

Create a colorful and fragrant fall finale in your garden with groundcovers and vines. Blanket the earth with hardy groundcovers that add seasonal interest. Then direct your eye skyward with vines ...

Let's face it. A truly green lawn has long been the ideal of an iconic suburban landscape for many. But having a lawn looking green takes a lot of water, fertilizer, mowing and maintenance to keep it ...

Southern shield fern This deciduous native fern is tall -- it grows up to 4 feet with 1-foot wide fronds. This fern will tolerate more sun than most ferns, if moisture levels are adequate. Cut it back ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado summers include marathon stretches of hot, dry, sunny days, but there is relief to be found wherever a tree, fence or building casts a shadow. And ...

Lush green grass isn't possible in all areas of your yard, which is why groundcovers come in handy to fill in those empty spaces. These low-growing perennials essentially hug the ground as they grow, ...

Groundcovers may be the most underrated category of plants out there. These low growing perennials may not be as flashy as a Hydrangea or offer fragrant blooms like a Butterfly Bush, but their role in ...

Q: My property has a wonderful line of five mature, 20- to 30-foot-tall white pines that have been planted as a windbreak at the front of my yard. Under the pines is my problem. I want to keep the ...

Not all nature-loving hippies are peacemakers, at least not when it comes to manicured lawns. Murderous pleas to “kill your lawn” implore suburbanites to ditch the pitch and plant native instead. This ...

Kristyn Greenfield likes to plant two or three kinds of groundcovers, mixing colors and textures, and plant other perennials between them so the groundcovers don’t end up eventually growing together.

When a grass lawn is not suitable or preferable for your garden, a groundcover is often a good choice. Groundcovers protect the soil, prevent erosion on a slope, and discourage weeds from taking hold ...

There are sedums and sedges. Sages and thyme (no rosemary, though). There's even one that goes by the very cool name of azorella and another called barren strawberry (without, you guessed it, any ...