Ornamental grasses can add interest to a dormant winter garden. Here's the best time to cut back ornamental grasses to help ...

Are you afraid of snakes? Some ground covers provide shade, shelter, and food for snakes. To keep snakes out of your yard, ...

Looking to avoid inviting some slithery friends into your yard? Here's a landscape design choice to remove if you want to ...

Anything drought-tolerant is a good idea as they will have a better chance in the long, hot summers, but also, once they are ...

Gardening is a delightful journey filled with the excitement of watching your plants grow, bloom, and thrive. However, not ...

Snow is nature’s winter insulation, and most of our plants are accustomed to at least some layer of snow protection before the coldest weather of winter arrives,” Don Kinzler writes ...

On the day that I wrote this article I wasn’t quite sure where my inspiration would come from. There are the happy holidays that seem like the obvious thing to write about. It seems like everything ...

The main job at the moment is moving shrubs. When we arrived in our current location three years ago we overplanted some beds ...

However the edges were a bit ragged, and we took the opportunity to recut them with a sharp edging iron. The difference a clean edge makes is always impressive, and this was a reminder that this is ...

Both cool-season and warm-season lawns require ongoing maintenance during the winter months. Learn the proper winter mowing, fertilization, irrigation, and weed management strategies to keep your lawn ...

One of the biggest mistakes people make before winter is scalping their lawn by mowing too short on their final mow. It’s generally recommended to mow cool-season grasses at 2 to 2.5 inches before ...