No category of plants works harder than ground covers to help a gardener create a beautiful yet low-maintenance landscape. In this book readers will discover the best plants • to stabilize banks and control erosion • to substitute for turf where grass won’t grow or is hard to mow • to line curbs and driveways, where salt will damage ordinary plants • to enhance a landscape with broad, dramatic sweeps.
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Nan Sinton is the director of programs at Horticulture magazine. She resides in Marion, Massachusetts.
David Michener is assistant curator of the University of Michigan Botanical Garden. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Carpets, rugs, mats, or floors-no matter how you think of ground covers, gardeners agree that without them, no garden picture is complete. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rotted wood chips, mounding ground cover, deciduous ground cover, shrub masses, golden groundsel, partial shade, effective ground cover, cool maritime climates, evergreen ground cover, aster family, woodland conditions, lawn substitute, petal lobes, herbaceous ground cover, saxifrage family, deciduous foliage, full sun, flowering ground, invasive pests, lily turf, named selections, dwarf selections, interrupted fern, low perennial, barberry family Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Northern Hemisphere, United States, East Asia, New Zealand, South America, North Africa, Hosta Partial, Ajuga Partial, Cranesbill Partial, Deep South, Encyclopedia of Plants, West Asia, East Coast, Gertrude Jekyll, New England, South Africa, West Coast, Asia Minor, Inside-out Flower, Russian Far East, South Carolina New!
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Carpets, rugs, mats, or floors-no matter how you think of ground covers, gardeners agree that without them, no garden picture is complete. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rotted wood chips, mounding ground cover, deciduous ground cover, shrub masses, golden groundsel, partial shade, effective ground cover, cool maritime climates, evergreen ground cover, aster family, woodland conditions, lawn substitute, petal lobes, herbaceous ground cover, saxifrage family, deciduous foliage, full sun, flowering ground, invasive pests, lily turf, named selections, dwarf selections, interrupted fern, low perennial, barberry family Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Northern Hemisphere, United States, East Asia, New Zealand, South America, North Africa, Hosta Partial, Ajuga Partial, Cranesbill Partial, Deep South, Encyclopedia of Plants, West Asia, East Coast, Gertrude Jekyll, New England, South Africa, West Coast, Asia Minor, Inside-out Flower, Russian Far East, South Carolina New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden (Brooklyn Botanic Garden Publication) by Brooklyn Botanic Garden on page 17
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