After decades of homeowners taking pride in growing the perfect, weed-free grass lawn, tastes are shifting—and more and more people are embracing low-maintenance, pollinator-friendly alternatives for ...

Over the years, I’ve become a strong advocate for replacing unnecessary expanses of lawn with native meadows. I understand the desire to keep a play space for children and a space for outdoor ...

Meadows are trendy alternatives to big lawns these days as much of the gardening public aims to aid pollinators and beef up their yards’ native-plant inventory. For most, that means planting or ...

Wow, late frost this year. As we wait for the inevitable, I have lingering email questions to answer. Hopefully, at least one of these will be helpful to you. Let’s start with those who wonder if ...

There are a few things we need to cover as we move into the cool and then cold weather. The leaves are starting to lose their chlorophyll and showing their natural colors. The vegetables are not ...

The 2 million acres of lawn in Pennsylvania, and the Old-World tradition that all that grass somehow represents affluence, are in the crosshairs of a lawn-to-meadow initiative of the Pennsylvania ...

This Vermont couple wasn’t wild about mowing, but they were about flowers. Jonathan Yacko, 36, and Natalie Gilliard, 34, of Chittenden, grew tired of taking all day to mow their 5.5-acre property, so ...