How-to steps anyone can apply anywhere to install mini-meadows to attract pollinators. For most people, the term meadow conjures visions of sweeping fields of grasses and multi-colored blooms. This ...

Have you noticed the trend to replace the lawn with wildflowers and native grasses? Or maybe some of your neighbors have said goodbye to turfgrass and rewilded their yards already? What’s known as ...

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 ...

Wildflower meadows have been growing in popularity among gardeners, and for good reason. They’re low-maintenance and drought-tolerant, provide food for birds, wildlife, pollinators and other insects, ...

“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, ...

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. – It's the "money shot," this view from the entrance of Longwood's new Meadow Garden across plants swaying in the 90-degree heat to the refurbished Webb farmhouse 1 mile away.

A cluster of home gardeners walked into a wild meadow on Mount Ashland in early July, following in the footsteps of native plant expert Suzie Savoie. Their goal: Low-maintenance landscape inspiration.

John Greenlee has targeted the Great American Lawn - that notorious sink of fossil fuels, water, chemicals and spare time - for destruction. "The revolution is clearly on," he says, adding: "It's a ...

There are plants called Rattlesnake, Red October, and Meadow Rue. And there’s Prairie Smoke, whose feathery seed heads appear like wisps of silver-pink smoke. Purple Prairie Clover, whose spiky ...

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 ...

BRIDGEPORT — The Schipper family, owner of Colorblends wholesale bulbs, has been in the flower business since the early 20th Century and knows how to have a thriving garden. This summer Colorblends’ ...