When you care for a piece of land, you want to do the right thing by it. Whether your land is measured in square feet or acres, one very right option is to deck it out with wildflowers — ...

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 ...

SOON it will be time to begin regular mowing again and now is a good time to think ahead about the kind of lawn you want this summer. While many people still prefer a nice even, 'green-velvet' kind of ...

WHEN areas of lawn for decorative purposes were first developed around the great manor houses of Europe, the grass was kept short by sheep or by geese. But these animal lawnmowers left droppings on ...

Turning lawns into meadows can have big benefits for people, wildlife and the climate. Here's why 'meadowscaping' has become the latest gardening craze. When Sara Weaner Cooper and her husband bought ...

Peter Thain said neighbours initially thought he was ‘nuts’ when he started ripping up his front lawn but now love his wildflower meadow (Picture: Instagram/@evening_gardener) An amateur gardener has ...

Weeks of cold, raw, early rain, then droughty weeks of a misplaced summer; weeks of showery rain again, some of it teasingly warm: such are the mood swings of climate now. Wild grasses have loved it ...

"I used to come out here once a week and just turn it into basically Par-3 golf course,” he said, gesturing to his Lynn Valley backyard. It looked pretty, he said, but it was lacking something. In ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I am so glad not to have rewilded my garden’s main front lawn. The “re-” bit of the wilding would be dodgy: was ...

ONCE you've exhausted every superhero product and genius hack on the market, but still can't get your front lawn in shape, it's time to rethink your strategy. There's one simple strategy you can ...