"Ground cover" must surely be the most lukewarm label we apply to some genuinely lovely and useful plants. It's like calling your (also lovely and useful) spouse "the dishwasher." Many ground covers ...

When I moved into my home in the mid-1970s, it was brand new on a good-sized but totally empty patch of ground on a hillside. We were in the midst of a severe drought, so traditional lawns were out of ...

When we talk about gardens and gardening, it's easy to assume that we're referring to goings on in the front yard, to a lawn or lawn substitute or a border with perennials and shrubs that runs along ...