Cover the ground with a beautiful carpet of foliage, thereby reducing erosion and providing a mat that inhibits weeds. Good ground covers spread easily and quickly and will grow underneath other edible plants. They need weeding and or mulching and watering to get established. Since it is often not affordable to plant groundcovers so close together that they cover the ground immediately, people often plant 1-2 feet apart. Plants fill in and cover the ground in a year or two. Chunks of most established ground covers can be removed to extend a planting.
(Rubus pentalobus) This thornless evergreen groundcover, from the mountains of Taiwan, has beautiful clover shaped, leathery green foliage which covers the ground, turning an attractive coppery color in the autumn. It grows only a few inches tall. The infrequent yellow berries ripen in July. Grows in Sun or shade. 4 inch pot.