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Groundcover choices
Time to smother, time to plant
Quest for seedless trees
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1895 Spring meets 4-lined bug
Soil moistener, rabbits and row cover
Poetic pruning makes cherry into stooge
Allergy and volcano alerts
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Aegopodium podagraria, weedy, smothering pg. 7
Ajuga 'Chocolate Chip', pg. 5
Ajuga pg. 2
Allegheny spurge, Pachysandra procumbens, pg. 5
allergies, related to seedless trees, pg. 8
alternative lawn, pp. 1-6
Amsonia, dwarf,
Amsonia 'Short Stack',
Amsonia 'Little Blue Star', pg. 5
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Arenaria verna caespitosa,
Irish moss, pg. 5
Asarum canadensis,
wild ginger, pg. 5
attracting birds pp. 8 - 10
bed preparation, pg. 6
Bellevue Botanical Garden,
groundcover display, pg. 4
bigroot perennial geranium,
Geranium macrorrhizum, pg. 6
birds pp. 8 - 10
bishop's weed, weedy,
smothering pg. 7
blue mist spirea, Caryopteris
x clandonensis, pg. 5
blue oat grass,
Helictotrichon, pg. 5
bluestar juniper,
Juniperus squamata, pg. 5
brass buttons,
Leptinella squalida, pg. 5
Buddleia, dwarf butterfly
bush 'Low and Behold', pg. 5
bunchberry,
Cornus canadensis, pg. 5
butterfly bush, dwarf 'Low
and Behold', Buddleia, pg. 5
Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance',
dwarf carex, pg. 5
Carex muskingiemensis,
musking carex, pg. 5
Caryopteris x clandonensis,
blue mist spirea, blue beard,
pg. 5
Cerastium tomentosum,
snow in summer, pg. 5
Cornell University Plantations,
groundcover display area, pg. 4
Cornus canadensis,
bunchberry, pg. 5
creeping phlox,
Phlox subulata, pg. 5
crested iris, Iris cristata, pg. 5
Delosperma 'Mesa Verde',
ice plant, pg. 5
design pp. 1-4
complement between
background and plant
pg. 4
foliage color pp. 3-4
focal point pp. 2-3
groundcover areas, pp. 1-6
Dianthus 'Bath's Pink',
pinks, pg. 5
dog urine, kills groundcover,
pg. 4
elm seeds pg. 1
floating row cover
as pest control pg. 13
foamflower,
Tiarella cordifolia, pg. 5
four-lined plant bug pg. 11
frame in designing
groundcover area pp. 3
groundcover patterns pp. 3-6
texture in groundcover pp. 2
Galium odoratum pp. 2, 5
Geranium macrorrhizum,
bigroot perennial geranium,
pg. 6
ginger, Asarum canadensis,
pg. 5
groundcover choices
cost compared to lawn
higher then lower over
time
environmental benefits, pg. 5
Hortech website groundcover
selection guide, pp. 4-5
public garden groundcover
display areas, pg. 4
shady groundcovers, pg. 5
sunny groundcovers, pg. 5
groundcover planting
multiple groundcovers,
quilt of groundcover, pp. 3-4
Helictotrichon sempervirens,
blue oat grass, pg. 5
Hens & chicks,
Sempervivum species, pg. 5
horsetail, weed, smothering pg. 7
Hosta, as groundcover pg. 5
Hypericum calycinum,
St. Johnswort, creeping, pg. 5
ice plant,
Delosperma 'Mesa Verde', pg. 5
Iris cristata, crested iris, pg. 5
Iris pallida, zebra iris, pg. 5
Irish moss, Arenaria verna
caespitosa, pg. 5
Japanese andromeda,
Pieris japonica pg. 2
Juniperus squamata
'Bluestar' juniper, pg. 5
lambs ear, StachyS 'Big Ears',
pg. 5
Lamium pp. 2, 5
Leptinella squalida,
brass buttons, pg. 5
lily of the valley, weedy,
smothering pg. 7
lilyturf pp. 2, 5
Liriope pp. 2, 5
Longwood Gardens,
groundcover display area,
pg. 4
maple 'Autumn Fire' pg. 7
Mazus reptans, pg. 5
musking carex,
Carex muskingiemensis,
pg. 5
orange stonecrop sedum,
Sedum kamschaticum, pg. 5
Oxalis 'Atropurpureum,
queen's clover, pg. 5
Pachysandra pp. 2, 4, 5
Alleghany spurge North
American native
Pachysandra
pp. 4, 5
Japanese Pachysandra pg. 2
paving stones, placement, pg. 4
Phlox stolonifera,
woodland phlox, pg. 5
Phlox subulata,
creeping phlox, pg. 5
Pieris japonica,
Japanese andromeda pg. 2
pinks, Dianthus 'Bath's Pink',
pg. 5
polymers pg. 12
pruning pg .13
pruning, awkward cut pg. 13
quack grass, weedy,
smothering pg. 7
queen's clover,
Oxalis 'Atropurpureum', pg. 5
rabbits pg. 13
row cover as pest control pg. 13
Sagina subulata,
Scotch moss, pg. 5
Scotch moss,
Sagina subulata, pg. 5
scouring rush, weedy,
smothering pg. 7
Sedum 'Angelina', pg. 5
Sedum dasyphyllum, pg. 5
Sedum kamschaticum,
orange stonecrop, pg. 5
Sedum requienii, pg. 5
seedless trees pp. 7-8
Seedless cutleaf silver maple
Acer saccharinum 'Silver
Queen'
Seedless red maples
Acer rubrum
'Celebration',
'Autumn Flame'
No-pod honey locusts:
Gleditsia
triacanthos
'Fairview', 'Moraine',
'Shademaster', Skyline'
Seedless ash:
Fraxinus 'Autumn
Applause',
'Fallgold',
'Marshall', 'Patmore'
Podless Kentucky coffeetree:
Gymnocladus dioicus
'Espresso',
'Prairie Titan', 'Stately
Manor'
No-snow cottonwood:
Populus x 'Siouxland',
'Robusta'
Nutless horsechestnut:
Aesculus 'Baumanii'
Fruitless Ginkgo: 'Princeton
Sentry', 'Fairmount',
'Lakeview'
seeds as bird food pp. 1, 8
Sempervivum species,
hens & chicks, pg. 5
smother to prepare bed, pg. 6
snow in summer,
Cerastium tomentosum, pg. 5
weedy, smothering pg. 7
soil-moistening polymers pg. 12
songbirds pp. 8 - 10
St. Johnswort, creeping,
Hypericum calycinum, pg. 5
Stachys 'Big Ears', lambs ear, pg. 5
State Botanical Garden
of Kentucky, groundcover
display area, pg. 4
sweet woodruff pp. 2, 5
thyme, creeping, wooly,
creeping Thymus serpyllum,
wooly Thymus lanuginosus, pg. 5
thyme, dwarf species,
Thymus praecox pp. 2, 5
Tiarella cordifolia,
foamflower, pg. 5
transplant tree, selling trees
from your landscape pg. 8
tree removal contractor,
selecting, pg. 8
University of Michigan
Matthaei Botanical Garden,
groundcover display area, pg. 4
Veronica repens, golden
creeping veronica, pg. 5
volcano mulch pg. 14
weeds not easily smothered pg. 7
weeping cherry, pruned pg 13
wild ginger,
Asarum canadensis, pg. 5
woodland phlox,
Phlox stolonifera, pg. 5
Yucca 'Color Guard', pg. 5
zebra iris, Iris pallida, pg. 5
Lucy Chargot
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