At the base of a tree, for example, you might have better luck with wood chips or shade-loving ornamental plants like ivy, periwinkle, or pachysandra. |
Serious ground covers like Vinca, pachysandra or ivy are too aggressive to make good companions. |
If you did have shade in the garden, you certainly did not extol it, you just quietly covered the area with ivy or pachysandra. |
We must do something about the potato vine tangled in the pachysandra. |