"Wow, so inspiring and well done!" Homeowner shares before-and-after footage after remodeling drab front yard: 'Really ...

I have talked to many people who have tried to create a meadow or prairie situation on a plot of ground, but few have been successful, basically for two reasons: First, the ground needs to be prepared ...

Loved for its relaxed, informal and romantic style, prairie planting seeks to replicate the American prairies of the Midwest.

Horticulturist Kelly Norris has a favorite task in his Des Moines front yard: puttering. By that he means meandering, leaning into a plant for a closer look, wondering which birdsong he's hearing, and ...

Prairie dropseed, or Sporobolus heterolepis, is a beautiful and showy grass native to the prairies of Ohio. Its fountain of delicate leaves can add a certain lyrical quality to a garden as they sway ...

(No endorsement nor discrimination of specific vendors is intended or implied). *Many other nurseries produce and market native trees, shrubs, groundcovers and herbaceous perennials. This list is ...

Turf grass blankets 40 million acres in the United States. That’s an area three times larger than our largest national park, Wrangell-St. Elias in Alaska. It takes 8 billion gallons of water to ...

Therry and Jill Adcock of Edelstein didn't buy land on which to build their dream house. The land to love and use was their dream. Still, it didn't exactly call out to the couple. "The first time I ...

The nasty drought of 2021 wasn’t the region’s first and it likely won’t be the last. Is nature calling us back to a simpler prairie landscape that suited the Upper Midwest well for millennia, ...

My son just bought a home in Johnson County with a ridiculously large lawn. It's a 4.7 acre property with, I'd estimate, about 3 1/2 acres of well established fescue lawn - much more lawn than anyone ...

A growing trend is to have pollinator friendly alternatives to traditional lawn turf. If you have clover growing in your lawn, it may not be such a bad thing as we learn from Mary Meyer, professor of ...