Hello: We have a Japanese-style garden and planted Hernaria as our ground cover. The raccoons have started to come to our yard and are destroying the hernaria. When we planted the hernaria a few years ago we noticed that as the ground cover grew it appeared as if we had two different varieties; one area of the ground cover is very dense and close to the ground, the other area is loose and taller and does not hug the ground.

This creates a perfect way for the raccoons to flip up the hernaria to dig below for food.

1) Does anyone know the best way to get rid of raccoons?

2) What ground cover would you recommend for an area that gets lots of sun. We already have large areas of dwarf mondo grass and don't want to add more.

Thank you

Rosemary