Ground cover plantings don’t have to be only green. There are several excellent choices of flowering ground covers to use in the sun, as well as some for shade where the grass will not grow.

Ground covers may be small, but their impact is big. With thoughtful selection, they’ll reduce your maintenance load, support pollinators, and beautify your garden from the ground up.

Very low growing ground covers are pink creeping thyme, wooly thyme, and gray creeping germander. These grow well in full sun with moderate water but are not California natives.

Capitalize on every inch of your backyard, from sun to shade, with these ground cover ideas to fill otherwise empty areas.

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Ground covers may be small, but their impact is big. With thoughtful selection, they’ll reduce your maintenance load, support pollinators, and beautify your garden from the ground up.

QI have a small front yard and would like to cover most of it with a ground cover that would spread quickly. I like the look of Irish moss but wonder how well it will do since the yard is south ...

A ground cover with more substance, a stronger presence, is T. serpyllum, another spreading variety that forms a dense, soft mat and soars a lofty 10 inches.