These drought-tolerant ground covers for sun and shade demand little care or watering. We've compiled a list of the best low-maintenance ground covers for gardens.

Before planting a ground cover to blanket your yard, learn the downsides of some popular species that may have you ...

It’s as if the sun, which is suddenly more visible in the sky, has an ally in the color of so many spring blooms.

If you’re looking for a plant for your garden that will come back year after year, is easy to care for and suitable for a ...

I have two old-fashioned tall red pentas that ... Most ginger plants are very vigorous and have multiple growth buds on their rhizomes, but the ground cover peacock ginger will wait until the ...

In most regions, April brings warmer weather, thawed soil, the end of frosts, and more sunlight. In short, April is a great ...

Spend more time enjoying the garden and less time pruning with these low-maintenance flowering plants. This woodland wildflower is adored for its unique blooms. The tubular red and yellow flowers ...

I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like an odd place: near the middle of ...

The school's 'Ground Force Day' invited pupils, staff and local residents to plant 20 fruit trees and various native hedgerow plants. The initiative is a continuation of the school's commitment to the ...

Pulmonarias are handy and robust perennial plants that brighten up shady areas. Their foliage has distinctive silver spots making it an attractive ground cover plant. In spring the dainty flowers ...