Ground Cover PlantsGround cover plants including a range of grasses are wonderful, but care needs to be taken in choosing the types for your particular needs. Help with selection choices for shady and difficult areas. The most commonly grown ground cover plants in a Western garden are Fescues- (Festuca) plants from a genus of about 300 species of tufted grasses, belonging to the grass family Poaceae. No doubt grasses are wonderful ground cover plants, but the lawn we envisage is that of the bowling green or the golf club, not that muddy patch outside the window! Ask a child what a garden has in it and they will probably answer "A lawn", and they will think of football, or picnics or games; they rarely think about mowing a lawn! Gardening is certainly not fun if the biggest task in the garden each weekend is mowing the lawn. So what are the alternatives for ground cover plants apart from the traditional turf? If your football-pitch maintenance days are over why not consider reducing the area of lawn, enlarging your borders so you can redesign them to give your garden a new lease of life? Do you need grass at all, what about paving, with a variety of ground cover plants throughout? Your new borders need not be high-maintenance; by thoughtful selection of ground cover plants you can focus on some stunning specimen plants surrounded by ground cover plants such as Alchemilla mollis and hostas.
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