The front yard is a passerby or visitor’s first impression of your home and you. It is also the first thing you see when you ...

You can throw in some vibrant annuals like zinnias for fun! Most people plant a vegetable garden in the backyard, but the ...

All that work gleaning, collecting seed, seeding green spaces, and changing over the beds in your garden this month will make ...

Water-hungry lawns are symbols of Los Angeles' past. In this series , we spotlight yards with alternative, low-water ...

A word-of-mouth bartering system has sprung up at Karl Reamer's backyard farm, with community members swapping labor, plants ...

You don’t have to commit all of your savings to your project, either, there are inexpensive landscaping ideas that will liven up your yard without ... or entire vegetable gardens has also ...

Santa Barbara county greenthumbs, or aspiring gardeners looking to branch out and explore the hobby, can register now for a ...

The nonprofit group Wild Ones offers a free library of designs, with plants specific to your area — and you don’t have to be ...

Among the “performers” is a pale lilac wisteria climbing a trellis that stands along the walkway to the front ... This garden ...

Some version of “back to the land” has to be part of our climate solution: more people farming again and putting carbon into ...

At this time of year I always get a craving, one that reminds me of growing up on Marguerite Avenue. My family had a set of gardens in the backyard. They were mostly small flower gardens but we had ...

Some local gardeners are gravitating toward native plants because they don’t consume as much water and help promote ...