Flowering creeping thyme as ground cover - Sahadat Hossain/Getty Images As a master gardener and permaculturalist, I genuinely believe that ground covers are wildly underutilised in the home garden.

Have a shady spot where grass won't grow? There's a ground cover for that. Have a bank that is too steep to mow easily? There's a ground cover for that. Need to fill in a bare spot in your landscape ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Planting ground covers is an amazing way to turn a patchy or hard-to-maintain yard into a landscape fit for Pinterest. Sadly, though, not all ...