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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those stone beds only look nice in the first week, and in advertisements. In no time at all, the transferred heat from the stone will kill everything except the crab grass, which will flourish.

Agree with everyone else: plant ground cover.  You'll need to mulch it and water it for the first year or two while it get established and spreads out. I went from using 8-10 bags of mulch in the first year to deter weeds in between my intentional planting, to using zero bags of mulch this year, three years on. All the plantings have grown and taken over the space. No mulch, almost no weeds. And it looks really pretty, if I may say so :) [/quote]

What ground cover did you plant?[/quote]

Mine doesn't fit the current (laudable) trend of native-only plantings, but it sure is thriving in my deeply-shaded yard: I have assorted vinca minors. Aka periwinkle. It doesn't spread as aggressively as ivy, it doesn't choke out the other things--- I have a lot of ferns and hostas and hellebores, and they coexist nicely-- and it does pretty little purple flowers in the spring, and occasionally throughout the summer. It creeps rather than climbs, so it's not threatening my larger plants the way ivy would. [/quote]

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