Northeast Gardening: suggestions for ground cover???, 1 by amethystsm

amethystsm wrote:
Not to be an ungrateful newbie, rejecting the offer of free plants, but the lamb's ear sounds scary. i worry about the extreme invasiveness i read about.

the vinca minor looks nice.
i think i planted some vinca major (?) plants in another spot last year - the kind with the varigated leaves. they were labeled as periwinkle, but never did bloom, and i was convinced that i'd bought the wrong thing. the vines grew ok, but the leaves were definitely being eaten up by some kind of bugs... after reading about them here, i'm curious to see if anything comes back this year - nothing is there now.

basically, i want something that will grow downhill, and can be discouraged from growing in the other direction - into the yard. I don't want to cause a worse problem than an ugly, rocky slope. Plants that creep up i can deal with - plants that will spawn all over the place i cannot...

What about scotch moss? Or some kind of ferns?

thanks...

amy
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