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Tenielle Jordison

Best ground cover plants for shade – 5 plants that thrive in darker spots

Ground cover plants for shade.

It can be hard to know what to do in the darker spots of your yard and knowing which plants will grow happily out of the sun.

A big part of creating a shade garden is picking out ground cover plants to brighten up the ground beneath trees and in corners sheltered from sun exposure. Shade plants thrive out of the sun and are perfect for gardening in trickier places. Choosing the right ground cover plants for shade will create colorful carpets across your yard, no matter how little light it gets.

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