Purple Dragon' is a stunning ground cover, but if you want some variation in your garden there are a few choices that pair especially well with this plant.

Our gardens often have evergreen and deciduous plants at this time of the year. This distinction results from evolution, driven by environmental factors and survival strategies. Evergreen plants ...

Evergreen shrubs such as boxwood, holly, rhododendron, yew and arborvitae provide year-round green color in the landscape.

Liriope muscari grows in a clumping form and will spread to about 12 to 18 inches wide. The leaf blades tend to be a little ...

Dear Reader: Consider Lacey oak. It’s native to the Hill Country, also to far Southwest Texas. It grows 20 to 25 feet tall ...

A: Consider Lacey oak. It’s native to the Hill Country, also to far Southwest Texas. It grows 20 to 25 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide. It has small, rounded blue-green leaves all summer. In late ...

What low and mid-sized shrubs would do well (3 to 5 feet tall), and what would be a couple of the best ground covers? I’d prefer plants that ... are many attractive variegated and weeping ...

Ivy will grow in any soil and thrives in shade, although the variegated types ... is a vigorous plant that is suitable or growing against a wall or as ground cover.

But not if it's bishop's weed (Aegopodium podagraria) or its variegated-leaved 'Variegatum ... from full sun to heavy shade. This ground cover is a perfect fit for those who overwater their plants or ...

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