Despite years of encouragement to change water-guzzling landscapes to ones that are more appropriate for a desert, there are still local residents who think their only landscape choices in the Mojave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Does your yard have trees, palms, shrubs and perennials growing in it? What about ground covers? Ground covers can add beauty to ...

(ARA) - Nearly every lawn or garden has one - a bare, ugly spot where nothing seems to grow well. Maybe the spot gets too much sun, or too much shade. Perhaps the soil is too sandy, rocky or full of ...

If you have been considering adding ground covers to your landscape, now through March is an excellent time to plant them. Planting early will provide ground covers with a chance to become somewhat ...

Nearly every lawn or garden has one — a bare, ugly spot where nothing seems to grow well. Maybe the spot gets too much sun, or too much shade. Perhaps the soil is too sandy, rocky or full of clay for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. With the Chelsea Flower Show still fresh in the memory and a plethora of gardening shows ahead of us, garden ...

Ground pearls are native scale insects that attach themselves to the roots of turf grasses and suck the life out of them. Centipede is especially susceptible but all grasses except bahia are ...