I’m happier than a gardener wallowing in well-aged compost. The 2024 edition of “The Prairie Garden” is hot off the press, and I just received my copy. What a great Christmas gift for gardeners! Books ...

When gardeners aren’t busy gardening, we’re usually plotting and planning our next moves. We mark up our new seed catalogs, circling the must-haves, and soak up knowledge and inspiration from books, ...

With rising global temperatures and droughts becoming more frequent and severe, maintaining a healthy lawn has become increasingly costly to the homeowner and the planet. Most lawns consist of a ...

Even in its parched state, the Prairie Garden at the National Arboretum is a celebration of the collective and individual beauty of the wildflower. Amid scorched leaves and dried-out flower buds, the ...

Would you like to have an easy-to-maintain garden in your landscape, one that is inviting to native birds, butterflies, and insects? One possibility is establishing a prairie garden. There are many ...

Prairies once dominated the Midwest landscape from Canada to Texas and from the Rocky Mountains to Indiana. A prairie is comprised of mainly grasses with some flowering plants (forbs) and a few small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Horticulturist Kelly Norris has a favorite task in his Des Moines front yard: puttering. By that he means meandering, leaning into ...

Phyllis Schwitzer gardens like many of us, growing beans, cabbage, hostas and daylilies. But her repertoire extends to a glassed-in greenhouse chock with ferns, begonias, a camellia and orange and ...

Gardening the natural way will be the focus of a presentation during Thursday’s luncheon meeting of the Northern Fox Valley chapter of Women in Management in Elgin. Pat Hill, a landscape and garden ...