If we journeyed to Japan, we’d spend our days raking our sandy ground ... gardens flourish, we can re-create the spirit. If you’re yearning to bring a little bit of the old country to your ...

Ground covers are the problem solvers of the garden. They’re attractive, they fill in where other plants won’t grow, and you ...

“You can use them as ground cover in lieu of bark ... covering bulb gardens, spilling from containers or protecting high-use areas. A sampling: For areas with moderate to heavy foot traffic ...

High Country Gardens, based in Santa Fe ... But when grown in the ground, it produces a lot of offsets, eventually forming a multi-headed clump of up to one-foot-ride rosettes.

Ground cover plants are unsung heroes of the garden. They form an attractive carpet, opening the floor to various garden ...

that is also a useful kitchen herb and ground cover plant that grows in long "trails" and can help repel pests in your garden. Its leaves have a peppery flavor similar to watercress, and its showy ...

This spring, I’m already missing my big garden and no hassle compost pile. Tell me, can you even grow rhubarb up here? ” Nancy, Silverthorne Welcome to the High Country, Nancy, where the ...

Quick ground covers are full of charm. Impatiens omeiana, fairly new to gardens, is a hardy impatiens that grows 12 to 18 inches high. Its whorled leaves show a pewter midrib, and the stems are ...

You can’t live without it. Some have described ground covers as “garden thugs” or even worse, since they can brutally bully plants in their vicinity, to the point of suffocating or even ...