The most efficient way to reduce outdoor irrigation is pretty obvious — turn it off. But that, of course, is the least attractive option for most of us. Less drastic solutions are to irrigate less ...

Meadowsweet, or Filipendula ulmaria, is a summer British wildflower that foams in ditches and water meadows. In 1897, a chemist called Felix Hoffman discovered salicylic acid could be produced from a ...

Something is missing in many garden lessons. The instructor or writer addresses “right plant, right place” and goes on about site analysis: Know your sun or shade, soil, wind, and drainage etc. and ...

So, what's a gardener to do? Luckily, there are some wonderful native plants that offer both looks and performance that are just as good, maybe better. Several years ago I replaced my own patch of ...

More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, yet we know little about how urbanization affects biodiversity. In one the first studies of its kind, ecologists in Indianapolis, USA have ...