"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 ...