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Find the best ground cover plants that blanket the garden with color and texture. Grow ground covers for shade, drought, ...

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Steep slopes present a challenge in the garden, both in the initial planning stages and in relation to ongoing maintenance.

While these groundcovers aren't quite sponges, they do help the soil soak up water more efficiently and prevent erosion, which in turn reduces mud.

And they're really low-maintenance!

There has been a lot of activity on Master Gardener email lately about creeping bellflower. Master Gardener Joe Baltrukonis from Ramsey County did some research on this invasive flower and offered to ...

Creeping thyme can be the ideal lawn alternative for saving time (no pun intended) and energy on all that regular trimming.

They’re not the tallest plants in the forest, the brightest nor the showiest, yet groups of tiny ground covers still stop Elyse Jurgen on hikes. She snapped a photo in Lancaster County Park of a mix ...