Announcing Our New Guide to Ground Covers - Gardenista

Announcing Our New Guide to Ground Covers - Gardenista
Our family of Garden Design 101 guides is welcoming a new addition this week. You’ll also find our most popular posts about ground covers, including 5 Favorite Lawn Substitutes, The Best Ground Covers to Plant Between Pavers, and Landscape on a Budget: 10 Ideas for Mown Grass Paths.
Bugleweed
Heuchera americana ‘Dale’s Strain’ mingles with ajuga and fragaria by Cultivar 413 via Flickr.
Moss Checkerboards
Photograph by Kim Unertl via Flickr.
Japanese designer Mirei Shigemori was the bad boy of Zen gardens in 1939, borrowing from western landscape traditions to create a moss checkerboard for Kyoto’s Tofuku-ji temple.
Lilyturf
A tough plant for city streets, Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’ (foreground) mingles with hostas and lilyturf in Abingdon Square in Manhattan’s West Village. You can mix and match compatible ground covers to create a patterned quilt to cover your ground.
Photograph by Cultivar413 via Flickr.
Brooklyn-based garden designer Julie Farris wanted a roof garden that could play a big role in her family’s life.
Artificial Grass as Ground Cover
Photograph by Sophia Moreno-Bunge for Gardenista.
“Ever wonder how to add serious interest to the mostly shady parts of a garden?
Photograph by Matthew Williams for Gardenista.
Coral Bells
Heuchera, with luminously colored leaves that catch the light, is the evergreen perennial that works hard, and works wonders for any garden,” writes our contributor Kier Holmes.
Pathway Lighting
Photograph by Matthew WIlliams for Gardenista.
Heucheras catch the light in a shady garden. Our curated Ground Covers 101 guide also covers Ivy, Thyme, Bacopa, Lungwort, and more.
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