Ditch the mower and lower your water bill while creating a feast for the eyes with diverse plantings and gathering places

Use living walls to lower your home and garden's exposure while boosting natural beauty in your landscape

See how to design a front yard that makes your driveway its own destination

Resilient blue grama grass thrives in sunny meadows and parking strips in the western U.S.

Smooth sumac provides powerful jolts of fall color and persistent fruit clusters that add interest through the winter

In eastern North America, plant gray dogwood for erosion control or privacy, and you'll get flowers, berries and maroon fall foliage too

A long, thin garden perks up with a sinuous lawn and plantings that add color and interest year-round

Eastern U.S. native Christmas fern is a living decoration in the winter woodland garden

Send cleaner runoff into local waterways and spend less on yard irrigation with these simple landscaping approaches

It's invasive, a nonnative and a poor insect magnet. Check out these better alternatives to butterfly bush in the garden