Easily adapted to perennial borders and other nonwoody plantings as well as wildflower meadows, his plan uses the natural prairie and grassland as a model for landscaping. With the surface soil locked up, there is no habitat left for weeds. Weeding Out When weeds appear in your garden, as they will, ask yourself how much weed presence you will tolerate. If you have a sand-laid brick path, you will inevitably find the spaces between the bricks being colonized by weeds. If the microclimate is at all moist, moss will be a component of these weeds.
Many gardeners find moss attractive.
If you do, try selectively removing the grasses and other undesirable weeds and allow moss to remain. In this way, you will encourage this lovely green perennial to colonize and prevent the return of unsightly weeds. Some people colonize the spaces with a spreading plant, such as thyme. Scarlet pimpernel, an annual weed that appears in spring gardens, has a very prostrate habit, a short growing season and is a poor competitor with other plants. Furthermore it produces tiny red flowers.