Looking for a ground cover that will work in Zone 8A.
Doing a web search which I have learned not to believe they suggest Hedera which I like.
It would be contained from spreading.
It would work for me but I need some import from real people not the internet babble.
Thanks

My neighbor in Temple has some sort of Asian jasmine ground cover in his entire front yard. The stuff won't grow for me, but his goes like gangbusters. He mows it at the start of spring on a high mower setting and then never seems to touch it again until the next year.

I have ground ivy in a small (but ever encroaching) space in one place in my front yard. It froze back in the 2020 snowpocalypse, but it came back off roots. Did the same thing since our February freeze, too.

I'm really liking the reliability of Lamb's Ear for ground cover in flower beds to hold down the weeds. It loves our soil. It may freeze back in a hard enough freeze, but returns every time. My problem with it is my husband and our yard service thinking young shoots I have spot sewn to increase it are just another weed and whacking them plumb off with the weedwhacker. 👿

We have a jasmine acting as a ground cover here too, however, it will climb which could be a problem in some cases. We do mow it from time to time,

@Herrwood, here is a photo of my Lamb's Ear out back. It was 1-2 plants as I recall, planted Aug 2019. The spread is about 5' now.


I also transplanted around 10 bits of it to a bed out front of my house. But unfortunately, right after our snowpocalypse in 2020, our yard service had a new guy working the weedwacker who never got the memo to never to go inside my beds. He wacked it all off to the ground (we weren't home) just when it was coming back off that horrific freeze. I was devastated again. Most of it is coming back for a second time, so it's definitely a survivor. I'm going to transplant some more plugs of it this week to fill out the front bed a little faster. Love to touch the stuff and love the minty color against all the darker liriopes in that bed. I also have about 50 second season irises in that bed that are just beginning to set their bloom stalks this year, so lots of height contrast, too. )