such as 'Cutleaf,' 'Green Carpet,' 'Green Sheen,' and 'Silver Edge,' expressing myriad ornamental variations. Unfortunately, ...

Gardeners who have large, shady spaces to fill love Japanese spurge, which spreads by underground stems to carpet the ground ... its restrained growth and blue-green foliage, often with silver ...

And that is because despite the visual calm it creates, the use of something like Japanese spurge (Pachysandra terminalis) to create a carpet of green results in a monoculture and a monoculture is ...