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06-16-2005, 20:55

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Best Ground Cover for Front Garden

I am redoing our front garden. I dragged all the pachysandra out of the front garden with the backhoe - added some rhododendrons, large white quartz stones, barberi bushes. There was already some holly, stella doro lillies, other varieties of lillies, pjm rhododendron there. Now it is raw dirt between the shrubs and weeds are starting to grow.

I want some kind of mulch or rock cover in between the plants/bushes. I don't want another plant type of ground cover. I imagine we would put down landscape fabric and cover with mulch or small decorative stone. A landscaper suggested the stone saying it doesn't go bad - but I imagine you would have to clean and refresh it every other year or so. My wife has seen synthetic mulch - very expensive and I assume you would have to treat it just like the decorative stone. Regular mulch goes bad and has to be replaced (or added to) every two years or so.

Any suggestions on the best way to do this?

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06-16-2005, 22:18

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Best Ground Cover for Front Garden

Thanks Denwood - I appreciate your experience with this. Maybe the rock is worth considering.

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Dennis, thanks for the other perspective. I can see how the rock would be difficult to keep clean. I do have a pressure washer but my wife always has something new to plant so I will have to ponder this one for a while. My thought was to just keep weeding this year while I continue to pull pachysandra roots.

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