IF you live by the sea, you’d think nothing of dragging back a bucket of bladder wrack from the beach to use as mulch on your ...

Even young trees and shrubs can fall victim - rodents such as voles and rabbits may chew on their bark. Ensure you wrap them ...

Pecan hulls make a lovely mulch in a perennial garden or shrub bed. They lay flat and, at least in my experiences, they ...

Nearly half of American homes are at severe or extreme risk of facing at least one type of climate-related natural disaster, ...

Less is more when it comes to landscaping. While there’s something charming about old-fashioned backyards — the kind of lush, ...

While gardens may appear to be dormant during the winter, they are actually very much alive and teeming with life.

Spring is right around the corner, and I can't wait to get my garden started! I've already started seeds indoors that I know ...

If you can't "learn to live with them," Neil Sperry suggests a ground cover that makes mowing around them unnecessary.

After a long, tough stretch in recent years of battling thousands of acres of wildfires, State and Fire leaders meet deep in the pines to talk wildfire safety.

How Mulch Benefits Your Garden. Using mulch around trees and landscape plantings keeps grass from competing with them for ...

Business has been slow for independent snow contractors like Zach Bogdanoff of Yark Market Nursery. He and others in the field have been hoping for snow, but so far, the winter season has been dry.

Dear Neil: I’m seeing the landscape guys putting mounds of mulch around tree trunks in town. Is that really a good idea? It seems like it would cause decay in the wood of the trunks.