Choosing a groundcover
A groundcover guide - with information on planting, spacing, caring for, and groundcover links! Home » Plants & Animals » Perennials » West Coast Groundcovers - Mass Planting Where no Plant has Grown (well) Before This article is [... more]
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Best Groundcovers and Vines for the Prairies
 Author: Hugh Skinner Author: Sara Williams Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 635.96409712 EAN: 9781894856805 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1894856805 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2007-03-30 Release Date: 2007-03-31 [... more]
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Landscaping 1-2-3: Regional Edition: Zones 5-6
My new favorite gardening book.: I bought this book from a "bargain bin", even though I don't garden in Zone 2 to 4. The book is extremely well organized with listings of trees, shrubs and groundcovers for a particular situation: zone, full sun, [... more]
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Armitage's Garden Perennials: A Color Encyclopedia
fabulous info and great pics: It could be a coffee table book, but there is so much great information so elequently presented with humor that you love reading this book at any time. The information is just supurb. I remember reading about hardy lobelias [... more]
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Perennial Ground Covers
An excellent title from Timber Press: Perennial Ground Covers is a great example of the high standards of Timber Press publishing of horticultural subjects. MacKenzie does an overall exceptional job at breaking down hundreds of species of both [... more]
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Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region
The best darn native plant landscaping book for the SW: If you want info about native species of plants to use in Texas (or the SW U.S.), this is the book. And if you want landscaping plans for landscaping your Texas property with great species of native [... more]
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The Complete Plant Selection Guide for Landscape Design
This is a GREAT book!: The Big Green Plant Selection Book! That's what I call it. This is a GREAT book for anyone who has to make plant selections. I have only had it a short time and already I find myself reaching for it, time and time again. Once you [... more]
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Color for the Winter Garden - Part 1: Groundcovers.
On those days when the snow melts and we can see through to the ground, wouldn't it be nice to see something besides brown dirt? And better still - as nice a color as green is - wouldn't it be even nicer to see colors? Plants that are anything ... [... more]
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Groundcovers - Self-Seeders
Most plants that set viable seed will seed around a bit if they are happy. Some plants can cover a fair amount of ground via self-sown seed. Most plants that set viable seed will seed around a bit if they are happy. Some plants can cover a fair ... [... more]
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Groundcovers for The New Woodland Garden
So many lovely perennials, biennials, bulbs and corms either tolerate or demand shade that I had no problem coming up with a list of more than 40 that would be suitable for this new garden. Most of them are already growing in my garden or are ... [... more]
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More Groundcovers
A couple of my favorite groundcovers and a couple of lovely thugs. A couple of my favorites and a couple of lovely thugs. First, the good guys: There are many hardy geraniums (Cranesbills) that are super for the shady garden. Some become tall and ... [... more]
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Convert your lawn to groundcover
Test your devotion to your lawn. Is it time to convert from lawn to a groundcover garden? How many Saturday mornings have you awakened to the lazy buzz of the lawnmower? Lawns are part of neighbourhood life whether your neighbourhood is urban, ... [... more]
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