Why Use Ground Covers?
You can look at ground covers from two distinctly different perspectives. First is to consider using ground covers as a way of dealing with difficult landscape problems, creating labor-saving alternatives to growing or mowing the lawn. For example, ground covers can eliminate having to deal with the safety hazards and pure drudgery of cutting grass on a steep hill. And many ground covers thrive in shady areas where lawns will never grow well. You can also plant them in small “remnant” areas that aren’t large enough for gardens, yet would be a real pain to keep in grass. The second way to think about ground covers is to consider their aesthetic attributes and the positive ways they may contribute to your landscape. They can add color, form, texture, and sometimes even fragrance to your landscape…. regardless of whether you have a specific maintenance problem to grapple with. Creeping phlox, Phlox subulata, provides a two week burst of brilliant color when it blooms each spring, then s
