One that attracts pretty pollinators, of course, and this sedum does just that. What could be better than a lush, colorful, and low-maintenance groundcover?

This gardening hack will help transform your struggling sedum into healthy, full plants with lots of robust foliage and long-lasting flowers.

Where to Plant Sedum in Your Garden. As one of Martha’s go-to plants to complement your flower beds or use as a ground cover, sedum can accent the structure and design of your garden.

The term ground cover is applied to low-growing plants, other than turf grass, used to cover areas of the landscape. Perennial, evergreen plants having a sprawling, or spreading, habit are most ...

News; Home and garden; Gardening: Alternative groundcovers are easier to care for than lawns Thu., Sept. 7, 2023 Bee lawn seed mixes contain turf-type fescue grasses mixed with low growing ...

Ground cover: You can’t live with it. 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 ...

My favorite ground cover for sloping areas in full sun is Snow-in-Summer (Cerastium tomentosum). Creeping Potentilla, Utah Sedum, and Sweet Woodruff will also do well on sloping areas in sun or shade.

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.

Martha shares how she planted sedum in the cracks of her stone wall at her winter house. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...