Sedums can be upright or low-growing, but it's the low-growing type you'll want to focus on for ground cover. These plants can spread or trail along the surface of the ground, often to form dense ...

While combining colors and heights is a great strategy for marrying 'Purple Dragon' with other plants, there's a third option to consider — other ground covers like lamb's ear. Unlike 'Purple Dragon', ...

Barrenwort (Epimedium) is a group of perennial plants that thrive in the shade or dappled light in zones 5 through 8. These herbaceous, semi-evergreen plants make great ground covers because they only ...

Cover plants in the ground with a sheet or blanket, which acts like insulation. It keeps warm air from the ground around the plant. If you want extra protection, place a plastic sheet over the ...

Digital garden planning programmes can be useful tools, but they can’t replace human imagination, experience — and the ...

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You have options, of course: you can bring some plants inside. But uprooting them and potting them for a day doesn't make sense, and would probably do more harm than good. You can cover them ...

"We have known for a long time that most of the water that returns from the ground to the atmosphere does so through plants ... across different land cover types, climate and seasons.

For brief freezes, you can simply cover plants with blankets, towels, burlap, or other insulating materials. Make sure to weigh the edges of the covering down to the ground. Lift coverings during the ...

A bushy, deciduous shrub to 1.5m tall with finely-toothed, oval mid-green leaves to 5cm long. In summer, masses of small, rose-pink flowers are borne in terminal and lateraql panicles to 6cm long ...

The best cover versions can truly reinvent a song – sometimes so much so that they become the definitive recordings. For our list of the best cover songs, we’re not just looking at non ...