Ground covers are popular Louisiana landscape plants, and the most common around here is liriope. Industry pros and home gardeners commonly say you should never have to buy new liriope — just get ...

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.

The first time I encountered Liriope, I thought it was a grass. The leaves were about as wide as a blade of crabgrass and dark green. Then I read that a common name for this plant is lilyturf. But it ...

Q: I have a centipede lawn with a healthy row of variegated liriope bordering a mulched island. I have been battling yellow wood sorrel (oxalis, I think) in my lawn. I have been spot treating with ...

QUESTION: I planted a border of variegated liriope earlier in the spring, and the plants were very nice and bushy looking until the weather got cold. Now they are completely flat to the ground, ...

LAKELAND - While in Tampa recently, I noticed that a corner of a small shopping center was landscaped in a particularly pleasing way. The simple design featured a trio of loquat trees under-planted ...