How to Use Flowering Ground Covers

Use beautiful pink creeping phlox.

There are ways to take up large areas of yard space, and have beautiful flowering plants that do not need to be mowed!!! Too much grass is what most of us have!! Anything that can lessen the mowing process each week is welcome!!!

Things You'll Need

• potted creeping phlox in bright pink or purple
• potted periwinkle
• creeping sedum
• 'step on me plant'
• shovel

Instructions

1. 

   First, let's plant some creeping phlox on a small bank at the edge of a yard. This plant is a great edging plant on either side of a road. Or on a prominent bank in your yard that is not flat. It is beautiful and spreads every year!!! It blooms profusely every Spring. It's an evergreen and stays beautiful green all year. And you don't mow it. Mulch around the plants so weeds won't grow in between them until they grow together.

2. 

   Now, plant yellow sedum in the flower garden or the rock garden to take up space and have bright color. It keeps spreading year after year. This is beautiful between rocks and rock garden white rocks. This takes up lawn space. It will take away a big patch of grass and be beautiful and bright. Put a piece of black plastic down to kill the grass. Then put rocks and a few large rocks around on the plastic. Edge it with large rocks. Now cut some x's in the black plastic and plant your sedum where you want in the rocks and beside the large rocks. As the sedum spreads, make the rock garden larger and larger.

3. 

   Next, let's use periwinkle. This is a purple flowering ground cover that grows in sun and partial sun. It spreads fast and has beautiful purple flowers about all summer, on and off. And you do not mow it. Let it spread and take an area over. It's beautiful. Again, this is for taking over an area you do not want to mow.

Tips & Warnings

• There are many others to use, like the 'Step on me Plant'. It's red pink and you can walk on it and it is not bothered!!

• Keep putting areas of flowering ground covers out and you will do away with the grass!!!