Specialty Gardening: What would you do here?, 1 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:
sempervirens, looks like you've made good progress in this area! The Irish Moss and Mazus are perfect for this area but there's a great little grass that you could also use if you can find it: Carex eburnea http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Fall/Detail/01602.html. We brought some back from the shoreline at the family cottage in Michigan where it forms little tufts. My husband used to call it "Fairy Grass" when he was a boy spending his summers there :) I'm planning to plant some along this path to 'soften' the edges. This isn't a very good picture, but it gives you an idea of what I've been working on this summer. Plus, it also shows you one more thing I wanted to recommend, the 'gravel' I used to place my pavers. You had mentioned you didn't like the look of the 'white' gravel you used. Try picking up some of the bags of 'paver stone' (or what I used to know in the Northeast as 'stone dust') - it's a very fine "gray" gravel that packs down almost like cement and is great for controlling weeds! I picked mine up from Lowes and it was very reasonable, about $3 something a bag.