From mulching and pruning to caring for tools and soil, a handful of thoughtful steps can make all the difference.

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

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.

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 ...

No person may place or permit placement of any food or other edible material outdoors which may be reasonably expected to ...

Every autumn, the same debate rustles across suburbia: rake it all, or leave some? We’ve all had that moment when the garden ...

Students from St. Mary’s County’s Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center cut the ribbon on the Gateway Native ...

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

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

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

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

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.” ...