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 ...

such as 'Cutleaf,' 'Green Carpet,' 'Green Sheen,' and 'Silver Edge,' expressing myriad ornamental variations. Unfortunately, Japanese spurge turns aggressive under optimal conditions, and this ...