Designing a beautiful landscape can be exciting. That is, until you realize the maintenance most plants require. Although tending to a garden can work wonders for your mood, you might want to spend ...

While creeping and spreading plants make beautiful ground covers for flower beds, natural areas, or foundation plantings, they also bring lots of charm when used to fill container gardens and pots.

Cobwebs on plants raise gardeners' hackles. Is it spider mites? Or just icky eight-legged creatures getting too comfy on our growing things? Yet cobwebs are also a delightfully creepy and normal part ...

Ground cover: You can’t live with it. You can’t live without it. Some have described ground covers as “garden thugs” or even worse, since they can brutally bully plants in their vicinity, to the point ...

Some plants, like avocado trees, grow stronger and more cold hardy as they mature. They also become more difficult to cover.