Grading ground cover

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Ground cover is one of those terms that one suspects would sound so much better in French. Couvert de la terre. The sheer bluntness of the American name only reinforces the lowly status of the class of plants -- below trees, below shrubs, below borders, below even lawn.

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