Here, I share tips on plant selection, design principles, wildlife and garden maintenance, helping you to enjoy an eco-friendly native landscape just outside your back door. 'To create a native ...

In maturity, the basswood develops a pyramidal shape and can grow to 80 feet high and 50 feet wide. The heart-shaped leaves ...

So in addition to an all-native-plant landscape, Solberg wanted permeable ... together to make it fit into the space." The finished design does look artistic, but it was all part of Ongwiseth's ...

Well-adapted to the local habitat, native plants grow using less water and fewer pesticide applications growing with minimum maintenance. Planting native species in your landscape protects their ...

Over the past year, Anne King and her five-year-old daughter have grown native plants in their Portland, Oregon, yard to attract wildlife like birds. Although she knows that gardening can be ...

The Scott Watershed Management Organization is hosting three rain garden workshops in April and May to teach homeowners how to design and install a rain garden using native plants: + Saturday, ...

It is a public native plant garden that demonstrates how native plants can thrive in local gardens and landscapes. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Volunteers from the ...

When considering shade trees for landscape use, such staple native ... but occasionally a specimen is found with three to four trunks. Native Plant: Native plants are important to Ohio's ...