Flowering ground covers can fill large areas with low-maintenance, high impact blooms. Colorful ground cover flowers brighten your garden.

Two ground covers that are on the U.C. Davis arboretum All Stars list — a list of 100 plants that grow well with little maintenance and water — are snow in summer, and dianthus “firewitch.” ...

Other relatively trouble-free ground cover plants include Ajuga reptans, astilbe, ... snow-in-summer will fill a sunny site in just one season but will also take over everything else.

Summer is upon us, and it is hot. What could be better than a little relief from the heat in the garden? It might be time to consider snow-in-summer or Cerastium tomentosum, an herbaceous flowering… ...

You should apply the seed when there’s no snow on the ground, and do the seeding when the ground is not frozen, so you can get some loose soil over the seeds.

The end of summer is the best time to reseed thin spots in the lawn. The weather is cooling off at night, and if you get the task done by mid-September, the grass seed will have plenty of time to s… ...