When choosing any plant for your yard, it’s always important to consider the right growing conditions, but increasingly, even in temperate areas, we need to look at drought-tolerant planting as an ...

If you live in a relatively dry climate or want to develop an easy-to-maintain landscape, consider shrubs that are highly tolerant to drought. Some of the hardiest shrubs are those that can take ...

Drought-tolerant landscaping is top of the agenda right now, with the availability of low-water landscaping rebates, lawn-to-garden conversion incentives, and irrigation grants meaning there's never ...

In case you didn’t get the memo, California and the rest of the West are deep in drought, with no end in sight, so there’s no better time than now to reshape your landscaping — or balcony-scaping — ...

As I sit down to write, sheets of heavy rain pounding the windows make it hard to think about drought. Whether or not the current La Nina weather pattern means the third winter in a row of ...

“Native plants have survived over thousands of years in different climates, through floods, high and low fluctuations in temperature, insects and drought,” said George Oxford Miller, environmental ...

The butterfly bush, Cestrum, Rose of Sharon and other shrubs will tolerate the blazing temperatures that hit the North Baym particularly as our climate warms. Summer hot spells are nothing new for ...

Fall is the best time to put new plants in the ground. They can establish roots and become accustomed to conditions in their new home before going dormant for the winter then benefit from the mild ...

Many common herbal plants, when grown in the garden, are drought tolerant. They are native to Mediterranean countries where summers are dry like our own. The biome or ecosystem of Mediterranean ...

GLENDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- Glendale water and power is offering new ways for customers to save on their water bill while adjusting to the ongoing drought in California. The city has moved to watering ...

Many common herbal plants, when grown in the garden, are drought tolerant. They are native to Mediterranean countries where summers are dry like our own. The biome or ecosystem of Mediterranean ...