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Choosing the right ground cover is essential to the style and feel of your garden. With these options, you’ll be bringing on much more than the usual grass lawns!

Hyacinthoides hispanica

Spanish Bluebell: varieties, planting and garden uses

Bulb flowers
Akebia quinata

Akebia quinata: your complete vines and ground cover guide

Climbing plants
Cotoneaster horizontalis

Growing Cotoneaster horizontalis: care tips and garden uses

Trees and shrubs
Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Growing Hyacinthoides non-scripta: expert tips and planting advice

Bulb flowers
Persicaria bistorta

Bistorta: your complete perennial care guide

Garden Flowers
Lysimachia punctata

Growing Lysimachia punctata: care tips and garden uses

Garden Flowers
Winter aconite, eranthis hyemalis

Eranthis hyemalis, the aconite with short gold yellow blooms in winter

Bulb flowers
Sagina subulata, a ground-cover plant that looks like grass and moss

Sagina subulata, the moss-like ground cover that flowers before summer

Garden Flowers
Campanula carpatica, the carpathian bellflower

Campanula carpatica, the Carpathian bellflower: violet dots, lush growth

Garden Flowers
Heath pearlwort

Heath pearlwort, sagina subulata: a white-blooming grass substitute for lawns

Garden Flowers
Plants instead of grass

Great alternatives to grass for lawns: climate-proof and zero-maintenance

Lawn Care
Helxine

Helxine, Baby’s tears, a ground cover plant with itsy bitsy leaves

Garden Flowers
Erica carnea - winter heath

Erica carnea, the winter heather

Garden Flowers
Epimedium grandiflorum

Epimedium grandiflorum, a ground cover plant that’s quite the stunner

Garden Flowers
Persicaria

Persicaria, unlimited variations for a beautiful garden

Garden Flowers
Cyclamen coum

Cyclamen coum, a beautiful shade bloomer in the heart of Winter

Bulb flowers
Omphalodes cappadocica

Omphalodes, navelwort – like a forget-me-not for shade!

Garden Flowers
carex hachijoensis oshima sedge

Carex hachijoensis, the striped Oshima sedge to brighten up the ground

Garden Flowers
Creeping baby's breath

Creeping alpine gypsophila, for rocky ground and low walls

Garden Flowers
Lobelia

Lobelia, cascading flowers

Garden Flowers
Black mondo grass

Ophiopogon planiscapus, incredible black grass

Garden Flowers
Saxifrage

Saxifrage (Saxifraga), advice on caring for it

Garden Flowers
Ground cover plants

Ground cover plants, no more mowing!

Lawn Care
How to minimize lawn care

To reduce lawn care…

Lawn Care
fleabane

Fleabane, the rockwall daisy

Garden Flowers
Carex sedge growing near water

Sedge, carex, superb grass

Garden Flowers
Sweet alyssum, Lobularia

Sweet alyssum, cute ground cover

Garden Flowers
Candytuft spreading ground cover, white.

Candytuft, superb ground cover

Garden Flowers
Carpet of Delosperma cooperi flowers

Delosperma cooperi, Cooper’s ice plant

Garden Flowers
Green manure steps to prepare

Green manure, use cover plants to fertilize the next harvest!

Treating diseases and pests
Deadnettle

Dead-nettle, beautiful little ground cover

Garden Flowers
Geranium Rozanne

Geranium Rozanne, magnificent ground cover

Garden Flowers
Wild thyme

Wild thyme, ornament & condiment!

Herbs and spices
Aubrieta covering the ground and fading into the distance

Aubrieta, for rocky ground and terrain

Garden Flowers
Direct sowing

Direct sowing, sowing plants directly in the ground

The Vegetable Patch
Ivy leaf cyclamen

Ivy leaf cyclamen, for a marvelous carpet of flowers

Garden Flowers
Tiny Corrigiola flowers, stem and leaves, also called strapwort, in sandy soil.

Corrigiola, strapwort, a simple wildflower for rocky ground

Garden Flowers
Cyclamen

Cyclamen, a marvelous flower

Indoor plants
A round clump of bellflowers decorating a stone wall.

Bellflower, cute little flower

Garden Flowers
pernettya

Pernettya, beautiful in fall and winter

Trees and shrubs
Erigeron mound (fleabane)

Erigeron, a very easy perennial

Garden Flowers
Erica flower

Winter heather, fall and winter Erica perennials

Garden Flowers
bacopa

Bacopa, silver rain!

Garden Flowers
Close-up of a square of kikuyu grass lawn.

Kikuyu grass, lawns made easy

Lawn Care
A few leaves of corn salad in the growing bed.

Corn salad, how to grow corn salad

The Vegetable Patch
Colchicum

Colchicum, a flower to rediscover

Garden Flowers
Hosta leaves, green with white rims, in the shade

Hosta, a plant for shade

Garden Flowers
Ramial chipped wood is made from branches.

Discover BRF or RCW, Ramial Chipped Wood, the next mulch revolution!

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