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2. These Low-Maintenance Ground Cover Plants Will Protect ... - AOL

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   Ground cover plants offer solutions for various landscaping challenges, whether it's shaded spots where grass struggles or slopes requiring erosion control. These resilient plants thrive in poor ...

3. This Flowering Ground Cover Is Ideal For Planting Beneath ...

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   Choose a spot in part to full shade, with dappled sunlight okay. Hardy cyclamen grows from small, roundish, flattened tubers, which should be planted about an inch deep in the fall.

4. Gorgeous Front Yard Ideas That Take Practically No Upkeep - AOL

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   Shade lovers will fry in the hot sun. If you try to cheat, you’re just dooming a plant to struggle so that it looks bad and may eventually die (which is a waste of money!). ... Substitute Ground ...

5. Soil conservation - Wikipedia

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   Tree, shrubs and ground-cover are effective perimeter treatment for soil erosion prevention, by impeding surface flows. A special form of this perimeter or inter-row treatment is the use of a "grass way" that both channels and dissipates runoff through surface friction, impeding surface runoff and encouraging infiltration of the slowed surface ...

6. Groundcover - Wikipedia

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   Groundcover of Vinca major. Groundcover or ground cover is any plant that grows low over an area of ground, which protects the topsoil from erosion and drought.In a terrestrial ecosystem, the ground cover forms the layer of vegetation below the shrub layer known as the herbaceous layer, and provides habitats and concealments for (especially fossorial) terrestrial fauna.

7. Shade tolerance - Wikipedia

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   Most shade is due to the presence of a canopy of other plants, and this is usually associated with a completely different environment—richer in soil nutrients—than sunny areas. Shade-tolerant plants are thus adapted to be efficient energy-users. In simple terms, shade-tolerant plants grow broader, thinner leaves to catch more sunlight ...