Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spreading liriope plants in a field beneath shade trees - Yi Chang Sic/Shutterstock While Liriope, also commonly known as lilyturf ...

Can you explain how to care for the beautiful Persian shield plant? I planted it last year and now it is woody and leggy. Gina Graham The Persian shield (Strobilanthes dyerianus) is one of the most ...

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Liriope is an old standard when the Mississippi landscape calls for a groundcover. It is reliable in both full sun or shade, and as long as the soil is well drained, liriope will ...

Q: I have a border of liriope on the south side of my brick building, which is partially shaded by a hedge. It gets sun in the late afternoon. The last few years, about two-thirds of it has died. Only ...

Question for Dan Gill: I have a planting of liriope growing along the sides of my driveway that has been invaded by weeds and grass. Can you recommend a product that would take out the weeds without ...

Liriope muscari (pronounced luh-RYE-oh-pee mus-KAR-ree) is a tough, evergreen herbaceous flowering perennial from East Asia that grows in clumps 6 to 12 inches tall and spreads 12 to 18 inches across.

One of the most frequent calls I get in the summer concerns lawns and ground covers under trees, where sunlight is limited. Most callers want grass in these areas and realize the limitations presented ...

the back. Rabbits are having a field day with the transplanted plants, munching the grass down to nubs and squeezing through the little circular fences I set around the plants to try to protect them.

I planted liriope 2 years ago, and after watching them grow each spring, they get eaten down to ground level in summer. Now this spring, they are brown with little blades of green showing through. How ...

If ever you decide to talk about ground cover, be very aware of the company you are in. Some people will wince or grimace, others stifle a sneer. True, the phrase doesn't conjure up images of Arcadia; ...