Trading homes for your vacation? Leave yours in great shape for your guests and help them enjoy a happy break with these 12 tips

Swap some lawn for these drought-tolerant clumping plants — and watch your maintenance efforts diminish while they easily grow

Cool weather's coming, so prep for the first frost, swap out plants and get bulbs for spring in the ground now

Many facing a drought are swapping turf for less thirsty plantings. If you’re one of them, we’d like to hear about it

Have you been taken in by these fallacies about gardening with native plants?

A palette of perfumed plants can transform even the smallest of gardens into a sensory delight

Scent the autumn air with the perfume of caramel corn, honey and spices by adding these intoxicating plants to your landscape

Thunderhead pine adds year-round strength and structure to the garden

Set your containers free from the patio — placed among plantings in the ground, they fill unsightly gaps, let you experiment and more

Blend bold foliage and flowers to create a powerful combination that will hold its own even in the harsh light of midsummer