In my recent column about lawn care, I stated that many gardeners are trading in expanses of lawn for garden beds. Creating more space for flowers, edibles and native plants is an admirable goal, but ...

Horticulturist Daniel Cunningham plants a Vitex (Texas lilac) after creating a new flower bed by using sheet mulching at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Dallas. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer ...

A big part of gardening is finding solutions to plant-related challenges. I found myself in that position, faced with a hillside yard too steep to mow safely and too large to easily dig up and replant ...

A lot of people who start gardening don’t find mulching exciting, and the same goes for me. However, as I gained more experience in growing plants, I realized that it helps my garden beds look tidier ...

Hurricane Hermine left us with lots of yard trash. But it’s not all bad. This presents a good opportunity to obtain lots of relatively clean and chemical free mulch for your yard and garden. Wood ...