Always wanted to make a dry landscape? Here are some easy Zen garden ideas, including what you need and how to complete it. A Zen garden, otherwise known as a Japanese rock garden, is meant to be a ...

Love coneflowers but not garden upkeep? There are tons of low-maintenance options to pair with them — from lookalike blooms to ornamental grasses.

It may seem curious that viewing a sparse landscape of rock and gravel can be an antidote to the day's chaos. But a Zen garden, a minimalist composition of carefully placed stones, is calming — if you ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The idea that suburban gardens might be “sustainable” came late to ...

A Xeriscaped front yard for water conservation features a dry creek bed. Ornamental grasses and turf lawn alternatives will save water in a xeriscape landscape. Tropical milkweed is a beautiful ...

Arid-climate landscaping was hardly a dry subject for Warren D. Jones. The author, landscape architect and retired University of Arizona professor was an early proponent of xeriscaping — landscaping ...

While preparing to write this week’s column, I clicked down into a rabbit hole of links on the San Joaquin Master Gardener website, and discovered a fascinating paper posted on the University of ...

It’s high season for landscapers, lawn care and backyard parties, and already, just a couple weeks into summer, many homeowners across the country are wondering, “Is my lawnmower going to make it ...