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The best place to grow dragon's blood ground cover in your garden is in a sunny site. Though this plant can tolerate light shade, it produces a more intense leaf color when grown in full sun. As a ...
It can often also attract butterflies and other pollinators. While many popular sedum varieties are a bit too tall to also work for ground cover, that certainly isn't the case with all types.
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. Adding a ...
Ground cover plantings don’t have to be only green. There are several excellent choices of flowering ground covers to use in the sun, as well as some for shade where the grass will not grow ...
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.
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 ...
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.