More than just broad expanses of a single plant, ground covers can bring a fresh look to dozens of landscaping challenges and opportunities. Flowering plants, herbs, mosses, groundhugging shrubs, and heathers, planted singly or in creative combinations, can cover all sorts of ground situations with unexpected drama and add an elegant, professional look to otherwise dull and ordinary areas. Additionally, hardscape lawn alternatives such as bluestone,...

Practical, attractive, and easy to maintain, ground covers work harder than any other category of plants to solve gardening problems. Unfortunately, too many people using the same half-dozen plants have given "low maintenance" a bad name. In this new book by two expert designers, you'll find photographs and practical information on more than 400 of the best new cultivars of old favorites, plus dozens of more unusual plants that make wonderful ground...

This volume follows the multiple award-winning first book in a series of gardening books for deer country. Volume 2 again takes the reader into the garden,m detaining cultural requirements, bloom length, seasonal interest, landscape use, companion plants, maintenance, and propagaiton for each groundcover. Plants are evaluated for their use as a single specimen in the rock garden, or as a large or small-scale groundcover.