There’s midwinter magic in the air, because the sun is lower in the sky than at any other time of the year. It’s slanting through the garden, highlighting texture and detail, and taller grasses are ...

During the winter months, your lawn is either growing slowly or resting in dormancy, depending on the climate in your region. Mowing is greatly reduced or nonexistent and many lawns are blanketed with ...

Proper lawn care in the winter helps insure a healthier lawn in the spring. Here are seven things you should never do to your lawn in the winter.

Both cool-season and warm-season lawns require ongoing maintenance during the winter months. Learn the proper winter mowing, fertilization, irrigation, and weed management strategies to keep your lawn ...

It can be tough for a lawn in winter as it faces the prospect of being blanketed with snow, hit by frosts, or dealing with a ...

When winter's icy breeze sweeps across the countryside and garden birds ruffle their feathers on bare branches, most plants will have slipped into a deep slumber. Most – but not all. Evergreens such ...

Do you ever long for simpler times? Sometimes I do, until the nostalgia fades and I remember the reality. For example, I never cared much for my grandparents’ outhouse, and the upstairs bedrooms in ...

Cutting back ornamental grasses helps make way for new growth in spring. Cut dormant grasses before winter if you live in a fire-prone area or to prevent self-seeding. Leave grasses standing for ...

Looking to give your fall and winter landscape a visual boost? Grow ornamental grasses. The movement alone of these low-maintenance, easy to grow grasses will give you a big bang for your landscaping ...

For much of the year, ornamental grasses may be perhaps the most underappreciated plant choices for the landscape. You likely pass them unnoticed during spring and summer, when they quietly provide ...