Look carefully at the costs of a beautiful lawn — in terms of water used, time and dollars spent and environmental impact — and it should come as no surprise that lawn replacement is becoming ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series about replacing a lawn with lower- water alternatives. The amount of water needed to maintain a Kentucky bluegrass lawn in Colorado (and the ...

Horticulturist Daniel Cunningham plants a Vitex (Texas lilac) after creating a new flower bed by using sheet mulching at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Dallas. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer ...

A big part of gardening is finding solutions to plant-related challenges. I found myself in that position, faced with a hillside yard too steep to mow safely and too large to easily dig up and replant ...

We have endured multiple years of drought, and are probably in store for more. For many of us, it makes sense to replace all or part of our lawn area with less water-intensive plantings. If you decide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Depositphotos.com A TikToker gardener demonstrated their brilliant mulching method that is inexpensive and easy to ...

Sheet mulching works by starving the grass of light and water over six to 10 months. Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series about replacing a lawn with lower- water alternatives. The ...

A big part of gardening is finding solutions to plant-related challenges. I found myself in that position, faced with a hillside yard that was too steep to safely mow, and too large to easily dig up ...