Looking at the past informs where we are now and the challenges we face. In this installment of Curious Iowa, a Gazette series that answers readers’ questions about our state and its culture, we look ...

Shea Hembrey, who just completed an artist fellowship at the University of Iowa, creates “landscape paintings” using colorful soil supplements to plant trees and promote native bird conservation. Some ...

An Iowa State University landscape architecture student project has won the Community Service Award of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA). The ASLA awards recognize ...

"I kind of think of myself as trying to take Iowa's native ecosystem, prairie, which did a great job of building soil and cleaning water and providing habitat, and then think about how we integrate ...

AKRON, Iowa (KELO) — A local high schooler has found a way to brighten up the landscape in northwest Iowa. Ben Philips spent his summer caring for his three-and-a-half-acre sunflower patch as part of ...

AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University’s programs in landscape architecture and architecture are again ranked in the top 20 in the nation, according to the latest survey of practitioners by ...

SIOUX CITY — What started as a small lawn mowing company has grown into a full-scale landscaping company. Sam Peterson, 21, started Iowa Landscaping Company with a truck and a mower, going door to ...