Garden trends are slow to change—plants take time to grow, after all—but one landscaping approach has clearly boomed in recent years: Naturalistic garden design. Inspired in part by famous Dutch ...

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Epic Gardening has introduced seven natural pest control methods to help gardeners avoid chemical pesticides this spring. The ...

Naturalistic gardening is a way to blend concern for ecology with a desire to plant a "pretty" garden. The current native-plant push grew out of the desire to end our trim-happy, spray-rampant, ...

Don't let that last bit of coffee go to waste. Instead, use it to nourish your plants. Coffee grounds and brewed coffee are ...

At the OPC Garden at the Rochester senior citizen’s center, I steward with a bunch of volunteers, and there’s an area we call the orphan garden. Because it’s not readily seen and we don’t have enough ...

Alarmed by a drumbeat of shrinking bird and butterfly populations, dying pollinators, and invasive pests and plants, gardeners are embracing the idea that their own landscapes can help. The National ...

Stacking stones is an easy way to create a natural garden edge that adds depth to your space while clearly separating your ...

Lovejoy (Cascadia; The Garden in Bloom) differentiates the undeveloped style of natural, ecologically correct gardens (""more earnest than beautiful"") from the high art of naturalistic gardens (which ...

MOLINE, Ill. — News 8 plant and garden expert Craig Hignight says the best time to start planting is any time past Mother's Day. And with that gardening comes pests. But there are many natural ...

Several months ago, I wrote about a remarkable book by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West: “Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes” (Timber Press, 2015). In ...