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Spreading plants can get a grip on slopes.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 30-APR-05 		Format: Online - approximately 455 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Spreading plants can get a grip on slopes.(New Homes)(Make your new house a home)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Jan Riggenbach Daily Herald Correspondent

Some slopes are simply too steep to mow and too slippery for tender plants to get a foothold. Fortunately, there are a variety of tough ground covers, grasses and shrubs that have no trouble getting a grip.

Fast-spreading yellow archangel (Lamiastrum galeobdolon), for example, gallops through flowers beds, threatening other plants in its wake. Planted on a shady slope, though, its...

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