Ground cover alternatives to back garden grass. 9.5M x 11M lawn area.

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The right side of our garden doesn't have the best of drainage, even if we do live half way up a hill—compacted and lacking a rich soil on that side.

I have used an LLM to request a list, but am more interested in hearing from people with personal knowledge of this with our soils and weather regarding grass, paving, Astroturf and decking alternatives. Would love it to be a green and growing cover, just not grass.

I do like grass, but circumstances mean I cannot be cutting and edging grass the whole time like it needs. So grass is not an option.

For clarity, we have no side or rear entrance. The only way in is through the house.

Wildflowers are pretty and that's what I did first upon getting rid of the lawn, but at the end of the season what's left can be quite the nuisance of a woody mass that I cannot cut and have trouble finding anyone else who wants to. Wildflowers get taller than you'd imagine when fully grown which perceptively shrinks the garden considerably. They work better in a rolling meadow setting. They look amazing in their adolescent phase and less so as they die off. I think wildflowers on an ongoing basis make more sense for someone with easy garden access who can have a pro come in and do them twice a year—autumn and summer—to maximise the beauty aspect and minimise the chaff.

Regarding what I'd like for this green ground cover: ideal solution is a man who comes once or twice a year and gives it a trim or whatever. The less we have to be fiddling with it the better. Obviously if it's beautiful it would be welcomed. Some beauty is always a nice bonus.

Options I've heard thus far are creeping thyme, clover and Irish moss. Have no experience with any of these. Currently the garden is covered with many oxeye daisy stumps and returning grass. The oxeye daisies took over in the wildflowers mix whereby in year two or three the whole garden was covered in them.