Instead of creating a landscape in a vacuum, it's often best to nod to the architecture of your house or your interior style ...

The roots are at the bottom of the food hierarchy. That means that all ... If we were to plant hardy, woody landscape plants in the spring, much of the food would go into the abundant new growth ...

Relaxing by the pool is most enjoyable when the poolside landscape is on point. The best plants to put around a pool are those with low maintenance needs, that doesn’t make a mess and can ...

Use grouped plantings of varying size to create balance in the landscape. Repeating these groupings across the landscape adds continuity. PRO TIP: use odd numbers (3, 5, 7, etc.) of plants per ...

Technically it’s a shrub, which in the hierarchy of plant types ... chamise turns out to be a fascinating plant, one critical not only to the California landscape but to the safety of its ...

I was collaborating on a book called “The Natural Habitat Garden” with Ken Druse, a writer and photographer, traveling across the country to see the vanguard of the native-plant movement.

Grown as a tree or shrub, this plant offers year-round color that can bring your landscape to life. It grows between 15 and 20 feet high with a width of 5 to 6 feet -- allowing you to get either ...

This year I’m reaching out to local garden pros, asking them to recommend plants that deserve a place in our Pacific Northwest gardens. Richard Hartlage is the founding partner of Land ...

said the initiative to put native plants on the bluffs that surround the trail “turns the trail into a garden instead of being undisturbed and wild in nature.” He opined that the chosen plants ...