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 ...

If you've tried scattering wildflower seeds to create the Instagram meadow effect and failed, try the mosaic planting trend ...

Tim Hoover installed 150 acres of meadows in his 25 years as an environmental educator at the Milton Hershey School. The majority of his 1-acre Fairview Twp. home landscape also is a series of meadow ...

The Twin Oaks community in Chester Springs received funding to convert its lawn to a meadow. For years, perfectly manicured lawns have been a symbol of the American landscape. But environmental ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. There is nothing lovelier than tall ornamental grasses, backlit and ...

“I keep saying it and saying it and saying it,” says John Greenlee, “brown is a color too.” As autumn turns the dozens of grasses, sedges and rushes in his Pomona nursery various shades of gold, ...

Does the idea of a meadow right outside your door appeal to you? Are you interested in being less of a slave to your lawn? Consider alternatives to just plain grass. One solution is to plant an ...

Question: I put in a wildflower feed plot for the song birds 3 years ago. We prepared the bed by first using Round Up to kill all the grass then lightly tilled to scratch the surface and planted the ...

The Naperville Park District is launching a project to cut back on mowing in tough-to-cut places, especially soggy areas that often detain storm water. The Park Meadow Project involves converting turf ...