Ground cover plants to control weeds
There are a range of ground cover plants which are particularly effective at suppressing and controlling the growth of weeds on bare patches of ground in your garden. A thick, dense planting of low-growing (in gardening parlance “prostrate”) varieties can control weeds by preventing sunlight from reaching the soil and in turn preventing weeds from germinating. Weed suppressing ground cover plants also compete with weeds for water and nutrients to further help keep them at bay. Dense evergreens planted close together to form a weed-suppressing matt tend to be most effective to prevent weeds. Some of the best include Cedrus ‘Feelin’ Blue’, a spreading, carefree evergreen conifer with blue-green foliage prefect for small spaces; Cotoneaster horizontalis with its stiff horizontal branches studded with red berries each autumn after the flowers; and Epimedium 'Frohnleiten' with ovate leaves, bronze-tinted during the summer and bright yellow spring flowers.