Rewilded gardens are popular with homeowners wanting to protect native flora and fauna. Start small, and soon you'll have a ...

Terraced Hillside Landscaping Nobody enjoys wrestling with a steep lawn. Transform this hillside with terraced planting beds ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Mark is a seasoned green industry veteran and freelance writer based in Georgia. His work encompasses all things garden, landscape, home improvement, and DIY, with a focus on sustainability. Mark ...

Bigger isn’t always better, especially when it comes to your garden. And just because you lack square footage, says landscape designer Susan Morrison, that doesn’t mean you can’t significantly expand ...

Winter doesn’t have to mean a dull, lifeless yard—even though so many landscapes slip into a sleepy gray slump the moment ...

Experiment with small backyard pool ideas to not only increase the functionality of this compact space but to also add a touch of aesthetics to it. And, if you are clever about it, you shouldn't have ...

You don’t need to live in the desert Southwest very long before coming across an all-too-common housing drawback: a small backyard. Unless you’re lucky enough to have that larger cul-de-sac lot, ...

THERE ARE MANY reasons you might want to add a small tree to your landscape. Perhaps you want structure or shade in your parking strip. Common sense and municipal code will dictate that these plants ...

A year ago I stared out my home office window to a mud plain and a crudely built deck that ate the backyard. Today I have a dazzling view of giant boulders. How did that happen? Calling in ...

A French country garden with tall trees and lavendaer lining the path to the house - Ally Foster/Shutterstock The idea of French country design may conjure images of rustic-chic farmhouses, but the ...