The advent of low maintenance gardening has created a great deal of intrest and use of ground cover plants to reduce weeding. Ground cover plants must make dense growth quickly, The plants I have listed below perform well in full sun, these plants would be excellent planted on sunny banks where access is difficult and grass would prove dangerous to mow. Many of them are useful in stabilizing the soil on sloping sites. When planning a bed of ground cover plants it is important to select plants of different heights, textures and colours to give visual satisfaction.

 Until plants have grown it is important to undertake regular weeding, or you could plant through woven landscape fabric which in time will be hidden when the plants have grown.