Gardens are a playground of color, texture, and life—but some of the most stunning plants can be little tricksters. Groundcovers are often adored for their lush carpets of green, bright blooms, or the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The usual reason to replace one of the lawn grasses with another type of groundcover is because there is too much shade to support a grass variety. Even the most shade-tolerant grass, St. Augustine, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...