The Family Handyman on MSN

10 Hillside Landscape Ideas to Transform Your Sloped Yard

With innovative hillside landscape ideas, such as terraced beds and low-maintenance plants, you can make the most of a sloped ...
Penn Live

Here’s a new tool to help gardeners build a yard full of native plants

Gardeners are trending toward using more native plants in home landscapes, but three key questions are: 1.) which ones make the best garden choices; 2.) where and how to use native plants in a typical ...
Yahoo

20 Affordable Backyard Lawn Ideas That Skip the Grass (and the Upkeep)

Trying to keep a backyard lawn tidy takes time and energy. If you want to spend more time enjoying your outdoor space rather than maintaining it, it may be time to find lawn alternatives. You can ...
The Florida Times-Union

What you should know about using native Florida plants in your yard

Why should we plant native plants? I’ve talked to people who think Florida is tropical with no variation in plants year-round; that they are green and blooming all year. Florida is semi-tropical with ...
Woman&Home on MSN

How to use cardboard in your garden: 6 ways to help plants, from enriching soil to preventing weeds

You've probably thought about the ways you can use cardboard in your garden, assuming its only destiny is for the recycling ...
Fort Collins Coloradoan

The best plants in Colorado to replace your grass lawns with

Colorado homeowners can replace hard-to-maintain grass lawns with water-wise, pollinator-friendly landscaping. Design considerations include sun exposure, bloom succession, layered planting and access ...