"Can't wait to see them flower." Gardener shares before-and-after photos after transforming yard to attract wild visitors: 'I ...

Low-maintenance, drought-tolerant and wildlife-friendly — clover lawns are on the rise and replacing grass in gardens. Here’s ...

Bees are incredibly important to the environment, and if you want these pollinators sticking around your yard, this mowing tip will keep those insects happy.

Readers share stories and photos of their no-mow lawns. Kingston WA - We live in Kingston, WA, a small seaside town across the Puget Sound from Seattle. We decided to let our half acre lawn grow ...

Native grasses usually require less water than traditional turf lawns because their roots grow much deeper — up to 10 feet deep in some cases — allowing them to find water stored in the ground ...

The nonprofit group Wild Ones offers a free library of designs, with plants specific to your area — and you don’t have to be a member to use it.

Turning lawns into meadows can have big benefits for people, wildlife and the climate. Here's why 'meadowscaping' has become the latest gardening craze. When Sara Weaner Cooper and her husband ...

In other words, the best thing ecologically might be wild, waist-high grasses in some areas, but it’s hard to change the predominant belief that well-kempt lawns are equated with house value. And even ...

And this year, No Mow May, a campaign created by U.K.-based Plantlife and adopted by the Nature Conservancy of Canada, has sought to convince Canadians it's OK to let their lawns grow wild.

CHICAGO — In a neighborhood of neatly groomed lawns, Barbara Dolan’s stands out. Emerald-green grasses compete for attention with knee-high dandelion puffs, while closer to the ground blue ...

Many native plants, grasses and perennials don't need as much TLC. "Traditional turf lawns are water- and maintenance-intensive," Kevin Lenhart, design director at Yardzen, said in a statement.

An estimated 5,000 Americans are participating in No Mow May, a rapidly growing movement in which people let their lawns grow freely during the month of May, in the hope ...