"Ground cover" must surely be the most lukewarm label we apply to some genuinely lovely and useful plants. It's like calling your (also lovely and useful) spouse "the dishwasher." Many ground covers ...

Grass is greedy. It’s also, in my opinion, one of the greatest marketing con jobs in history. At some point in the past, some marketing genius convinced everyone to dig up their useful, colorful, ...

The front lawn of a house with an automatic sprinkler using copious amounts of water - Bilanol/Shutterstock It's no secret that a healthy green lawn takes a fair amount of work to maintain its lush ...

When I moved into my home in the mid-1970s, it was brand new on a good-sized but totally empty patch of ground on a hillside. We were in the midst of a severe drought, so traditional lawns were out of ...