For those seeking safer, low-maintenance alternatives for their own yards or to even suggest to your local school board, ...

By JESSICA DAMIANO There may be a 20-foot-tall skeleton on your next-door neighbor’s lawn and zombies in the yard across the street, but the real horrors often lie in unmarked graves in the ...

Picture this: a crisp autumn afternoon, trees blazing in shades of amber and gold, leaves tumbling lazily to the ground. Most ...

Prepare your garden for winter! Learn how a layer of mulch after the first frost insulates plants, protects soil, and ...

It's the season of falling leaves, and you might be tempted to use your pile as mulch for your garden and around the yard.

The parkway garden sits on a commercial stretch of Glendale's Brand Boulevard. It's a modest patch of native plants, hardly ...

Horticulturist Michael Dirr, author of  “Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs,” calls the hues “shades of fluorescent pink and rose-red to grape-juice purple-red.” ...

During the fall, leaves accumulate on lawns. Instead of raking them this year, here's how they can be used to improve yards ...

Companion plants can be grown in such a way that each plant supports the other. Strawberries, as it happens, are friends with ...

Discoloration, thinning out, diseases, and excessive weeds are important signs that you need to replace your mulch. Pest ...

Learn how to grow pumpkins from seeds with this practical guide, including advice on planting, harvesting, and more ...

Pine needles can become fuel for a smoker or fire pit, effective mulching, ground cover for muddy spots, or pleasant ...