Beginner Gardening: We need help choosing ground cover for Zone 4b, 1 by dougmcquinn

dougmcquinn wrote:
... and here's a photo looking down the street. Our neighbours are a friendly lot, and all stop to say they are amazed at how much usable space our walls have created. Now that we've grassed everything, we can spend the winter planning our plantings. It's like having a blank canvas and we hope artists among you will help us with the planning.

The only plants so far are periwinkle. You can just barely see them, at the upper end of the lowest wall.

Many links have been suggested above that we haven't looked at yet.

Angie loves yellow. We are imagining flowering perennial groundcover that is low maintenance. There are some steep places in our lawn at the ends of our walls that would be difficult to mow. So we want to probably plant the same thing at each one. Perhaps rose bushes, or juniper, or dwarf pine shrubs?

All suggestions are very welcome and very appreciated!

Thanks to everyone who has already sent suggestions or compliments.

Doug and Angie