These ground covers are popular and dependable, will grow in most climates, and are readily available in garden stores and catalogs. Given minimal care, they have proven time and again that they do the job.
| Common Name | Botanical Name |
| Aaron’s-beard | Hypericum calycinum |
| Carpet-bugle | Ajuga reptans |
| Cotoneaster | Cotoneaster |
| Creeping lilyturf | Liriope spicata |
| Creeping manzanita | Arctostaphylos uva-ursi |
| Dwarf coyotebrush | Baccharis pilularis ‘Twin Peaks’ |
| Dwarf periwinkle | Vinca minor |
| Dwarf rosemary | Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’ |
| English Ivy | Hedera |
| Japanese spurge | Pachysandra terminalis |
| Juniper | Juniperus |
| Mondograss | Ophiopogon japonicus |
| Purpleleaf wintercreeper | Euonymus fortunei ‘Colorata’ |
| Spring cinquefoil | Potentilla crantzii |
| Star jasmine | Trachelospermum |
| Stonecrop | Sedum |