Question
Charlotte,

  You gave me a website to find nice, care-free ground covers.   When I checked it out, I saw that most of them grow considerably taller than people allow their grass to grow, and most of them have flowers.   Does one mow these ground covers at all, or just let them "go"?
Sue

Answer
Hi sue.
No such thing as a dumb question, except one you ask, and already know the answer to.
My asian Jasmine doesn't grow that tall. It is a litle taller than grass, but not much. It kind of lays down, and it has runners, so it grows out, rather than up. It is growing up the trunk of a large tree I have in the front yard, and that looks so pretty. It isn't growing so fast that it will smother the tree. It has been growing like that for about 12 years, and not ready to have to thin it yet. when it covers the trunk enough to smother the tree, I will just pull a lot of it down. You can mow it, and if you do mow it, it will increase the root system, and that will make it spread faster.Walking on it, you can get your feet tangled in the vines and trip. I would not advise it where you want a lawn to walk on, although my grandchildren run and play on it. doesn't seem to hurt it a bit, and I have a park bench under the tree, in the midst of that jasmine. It is a nice cool place to sit and talk to neighbors. I am just careful when I walk on it, because at my age, falling isn't such a simple deal.
Ground cover won't look like a grassy lawn at all. It just looks like low growing shrubs.Be sure to put the sugar on your ground cover too.
the only "weed" the sugar doesn't prevent are the litle trees that get seeded in your lawn, by wind, birds etc. you still have to pull or dig those out. Or, you can wrap black plastic around them when the weather is hot, and it will cook them and kill them, then you can pull the dead stem out easily.
Charlotte