If you’re hoping to catch the blazing colours of autumn, your best bet is to head to your nearest arboretum. I was lucky ...

If you’re lucky enough to have a garden in a big city, you learn to accept the fact that while you’re out there, you’re in ...

This weekend's yard jobs include considering a new option on how to keep deer from eating landscape plant, controlling weeds, ...

After 20 years of growth, some of the ever-widening, 40-foot-tall Leyland cypress trees running along my backyard property line are blocking the walkway.

Some plants don’t just “grow,” they conquer—sending out roots, runners, or seeds that pop up in every corner of your lawn.

As climate change puts more of the world at risk of flooding, landscape architects are looking beyond disaster response, to ...

As visitors walk past one rare rock after another, they soon find themselves stepping outdoors to the roof garden, where ...

These were the words Vincent van Gogh sent to his brother Theo from Arles on 18 September 1888. He had arrived in ...

My garden soil requires a jackhammer when digging a new hole for plants. With some back issues and a bad knee, container ...

Japanese knotweed is a rapidly-spreading invasive, non-native plant that could threaten property values in Connecticut and in ...

Tree loss raises the risk of flash floods from rains on denuded grounds no longer protected by tree canopies and root systems ...

Comfort, warmth, somewhere to keep our stuff – must they make us feel rooted, too? Or can we learn to be at peace with ...