Asiatic Jasmine flourishes in the sun

The use of groundcovers has always been popular in landscaping.
It seems that the popularity of having designated areas of flowerbeds that are completely full of one healthy spreading, vigorously growing groundcover plant can uptick on season and wane the next.  Landscape designers will often use large areas of groundcover plants for extremely heavily shaded areas where the sunlight is just too filtered through the overhead tree branches and regular turf grass will just not grow well.  So they will design large flowerbeds of low light requiring plants that will do well, like Asiatic Jasmine which can do well in shaded areas.  In larger properties that are blessed with several large beautiful trees that create too much shade for turf growth – larger plants like Philodendron (a couple of varieties of this plant will work planted in mass in large beds, i.e. Xanadu, Selloum).  These large mass plantings do extremely well and give lush green appealing large flowerbeds that are usually planted around the base of large trees.
In sunny areas, the same Asiatic Jasmine that thrives in shady areas will also grow excellent in total full (all day) sun.  It actually grows thicker and much more robustly in full sun, but will require a little more water than in the more shaded area.
Another good ground cover that does well in our region of South Texas is Wedelia.  This is the bright green plant that blooms the yellow flowers that we see often in front of houses, parking lot islands and the sides of driveways.  Another plant gaining interest as a groundcover is the ornamental Sweet Potato vine.  The ornamental variety is the cousin to the actual sweet potato-producing plant but is bred to offer some striking colored groundcover colors of yellow-green / burgundy and bronze-colored leaves.