This surprising but beautiful plant can grow and spread several feet across your garden to help avoid having to pull up weeds ...

While both creeping thymes have similar growing conditions, Thymus serpyllum and Thymus praecox will have different results as a dependable ground cover based on a few factors.

Don't just plant the first ground cover that catches your eye –First, take stock of your problem area so you can select a ground cover that is appropriate for the spot.

Creeping winter savory, a culinary herb used as a ground cover, shouldn’t be planted where it’s constantly damp. Shear it back once a year to get fresh growth to replace woody stems. ( Ann ...

Here are a few suggestions for ground covers that grow well in our hot dry climate. For a California native plant ground cover, try creeping sage, hummingbird sage or yarrow.

Be careful what you wish for when planting ground covers. Most will do exactly that — cover the ground! For years I have had a healthy crop of creeping thyme. Everywhere. It tends to show up ...

I think of creeping juniper as kind of a ‘throw away’ ground cover, over used by builders on slopes to prevent erosion. But it’s tough, cheap and covers a lot of ground.

Outsidepride.com offers more than 50 different types of ground cover seed, from the luminous lavender and red of Magic Carpet creeping thyme and the baby blue of forget-me-not to the gorgeous ...

Whatever the source of your problem spot, chances are the cure is pretty universal: cover it up … quickly, inexpensively and permanently with flowering or lush, green ground cover.

Outsidepride.com offers more than 50 different types of ground cover seed, from the luminous lavender and red of Magic Carpet creeping thyme and the baby blue of Forget-Me-Not to the gorgeous ...