Over recent years, Japanese spurge has become a popular landscaping ground cover, with garden designers valuing its resilience and vigor, planting in tricky spots along pathways and under shrubs ...

That’s precisely where these hardworking, yet often underrated plants come in. While some thrive in dry shade and others ...

These Japanese garden ideas will inspire you to try this serene style at home – from planting options to tips on outdoor ...

Look at almost any small Japanese garden calendar, especially those featuring tsuboniwa (small courtyard gardens), and you will see that the photographers have made sure the ground cover is ...

Compared to western gardens, the color palette in Japanese gardens is restrained, with an emphasis on foliage rather than flowers – a celebration of green in all its varying shades. Trees and ...

Spring is the perfect time to give your garden a visual upgrade by incorporating attractive ground covers. Beyond their ... not as aggressive as the original Japanese pachysandra, but grows ...

This week, I wrote a column about the benefits of ground covers, which require far less maintenance than lawn grasses. But which ground covers are best? When selecting one, first consider the ...

You can’t live without it. Some have described ground covers as “garden thugs” or even worse, since they can brutally bully plants in their vicinity, to the point of suffocating or even ...