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- small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor
- low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow
How To Use ground cover In A Sentence
- Even without flowers, she says, variegated lamiums are a spectacular foil for hellebores, especially with the white flecks of the ground cover playing off the darker-flowering hellebores.
- He dug up those areas and resurfaced them with ground cover or mulch.
- So I hacked that all down and hauled it away, cleaned up about ten years of pine needles, repositioned the feeders, and then went and bought a couple trays of pachysandra, which is a nice ground cover, works really well in acidic soil, and is native to the aimai Balloon Juice
- The vegetable gardens spread out from the house, laced with marigolds and a purple ground cover that looks like shamrocks: trebol, in Spanish.
- There was a small playground covered in sand with a single swing set and a slide.
- It turns out the native animals impact that ground cover very lightly.
- And for ground cover, tough, bouncy perennials such as persicaria - heart-shaped leaves with reddish flowers. Times, Sunday Times
- One-plant cultures of a single species developed vegetatively, occupying shallow brooks with a stony ground covered with sand, are typical.
- Weeds often cause problems so use an ornamental ground cover or spread pebbles or stone chips.
- Creeping small-leaved euonymus, cotoneasters and ivies are popular for ground cover. The Sun
