When choosing any plant for your yard, it’s always important to consider the right growing conditions, but increasingly, even in temperate areas, we need to look at drought-tolerant planting as an ...

Things are finally moving along in the garden, and despite some of our recent cool weather, spring plants and perennials ...

Always wanted to make a dry landscape? Here are some easy Zen garden ideas, including what you need and how to complete it. A Zen garden, otherwise known as a Japanese rock garden, is meant to be a ...

It’s high season for landscapers, lawn care and backyard parties, and already, just a couple weeks into summer, many homeowners across the country are wondering, “Is my lawnmower going to make it ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The idea that suburban gardens might be “sustainable” came late to ...

Arid-climate landscaping was hardly a dry subject for Warren D. Jones. The author, landscape architect and retired University of Arizona professor was an early proponent of xeriscaping — landscaping ...

While preparing to write this week’s column, I clicked down into a rabbit hole of links on the San Joaquin Master Gardener website, and discovered a fascinating paper posted on the University of ...

If this summer has been tough on your yard, there’s a type of dry landscaping called xeriscaping that offers another option. Pronounced as if it began with the letter "z," the term xeriscape was ...

Due to the coronavirus shutdown, you have likely spent more time working in your yard. As a result, you’ve had to chance to become more familiar with the different growing conditions found in various ...