Water-hungry lawns are symbols of Los Angeles’ past. In this series, we spotlight yards with alternative, low-water landscaping built for the future. Looking out the front windows of their Northeast L ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The edge between two homeowners' lawns shows a distinct difference between the common lawn grass, left, and John Ellis' lawn of ...

Looking for year-round texture, movement, and color without fussy upkeep? Perennial ornamental grasses deliver all three.

Many native ornamental grasses are host plants (food sources) for the larval or caterpillar stages of butterflies and moths. Most of these grasses stand upright through fall and winter, providing ...

Winter is in the rearview mirror, and summer is soon approaching as the grass is green, and buds are starting to sprout on ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pink hairgrass or pink muhly grass grows in a variety of habitats, mostly on the dry side, throughout all the Southeastern states.

Within my first few weeks on campus, walking back from class, I saw a monarch butterfly on the sidewalk. It had been stepped on, either under a bully’s foot or perhaps by someone not looking where ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — When James McKee became president of his community’s homeowners association three years ago, he did it for the stormwater ponds. The 13 ponds in Seaside Farms provide protection ...

'It's really been a joy to reunite the soil with the plants that belong here,' Christopher Smee says of removing his lawn and planting California natives.