Beautiful and low-maintenance, it's no wonder why gravel gardens are popular. If your gravel garden needs a visual boost, ...

It can often also attract butterflies and other pollinators. While many popular sedum varieties are a bit too tall to also work for ground cover, that certainly isn't the case with all types.

Where to Plant Sedum in Your Garden As one of Martha’s go-to plants to complement your flower beds or use as a ground cover, sedum can accent the structure and design of your garden.

Ice plant in the Southwest region, dymondia in the Pacific Northwest, Asiatic jasmine in humid areas of the Southeast, sedum ...

Sedum is a large genus, so it's important to pick the right species of sedum for your grass alternative. While many types of sedum are perfect ground covers, others, like 'Autumn Joy' sedum (Sedum ...

I love ground covers! I did not realize until recently that there is so much to be learned about this topic. The universal ground cover is, of course, turfgrass. People have been using grasses of one ...

My favorite ground cover for sloping areas in full sun is Snow-in-Summer (Cerastium tomentosum). Creeping Potentilla, Utah Sedum, and Sweet Woodruff will also do well on sloping areas in sun or shade.

I think of creeping juniper as kind of a ‘throw away’ ground cover, over used by builders on slopes to prevent erosion. But it’s tough, cheap and covers a lot of ground.