Best Ground Cover

@hcromer (2710)
United States
April 1, 2009 10:13am CST
I am buying a house next week... The back yard is way too steep to mow so I think that I'm going to try to put down ground cover. What do you think are the best ground covers and why? How fast does it grow? Is it cheap enough for me to get enough to cover my back yard at a reasonable price? Pros & Cons? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I need to get started on it before grass starts to grow there.
1 response
• United States
12 Apr 09
Sorry for spilling in here all late and wrong but I do have one plant I'd like to recommend to you--Myrtle. I just think its beautiful and I have three plants of my own that are in front of my apartment! I have them in planters and I love how they have grown so quickly and drape over the planter looking vinelike (is it a vine?). I am not just recommending this one to you because I have it but because ever since I bought it I noticed so many others have it too. I do alot of hiking with the kids and I noticed IVY and MYRTLE were the most common sources of ground cover. Heres the thing, I do not like IVY because when given the time to grow outward and abundantly it has alot of brown leaves (unless you want to picks leaf after leaf) and I assume this means it needs alot of maintenance. I figure if your gonna have it you want every leaf being beautiful green but all the yards with MYRTLE I did not see one patch of brown and some of the yards it just complimented so well that I am so happy to have it. I would recommend this plant to anyone---added perk, every plant has beautiful blue flowers on them and multiply this by 30 and its a sensation.