In challenging, warmer climates, zoysia grass (Zoysia spp.) is often the answer to a lawn-lover's prayer. The warm season grass type is celebrated for being low maintenance and drought tolerant. It ...

Choose shade-tolerant grasses like fescue (cool zones) and zoysia or St. Augustine (warm zones). Ornamental options like Japanese forest grass, liriope, and blue fescue add interest to shady spots.

Grass seed isn’t one size fits all. A variety that grows lush and green in Minnesota may wilt and die in the summer heat of ...

Planting more trees can sound like an obvious way to improve a landscape. But in dry regions, adding trees can also change ...

Evolution and Mother Nature have given us so many interesting plants over the eons. I mean seriously, just gaze upon any landscape and so much color pops out, both in flower and foliage. Serious ...

Would you like a lawn that grows well in full sun or part shade, requires little or no watering, chokes out weeds, never needs fertilizer and stays green all summer, even when exposed to dog urine?

OK, readers, let’s play a game. I want you to raise your hand if you have at least one large shade tree somewhere in your yard. It doesn’t matter what kind of shade tree; it could be an oak, a maple, ...

Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less productive than those growing nearby in open grassland during years of average and above-average rainfall – but in a dry year, the ...