If you’ve dreamed of growing a vegetable garden but your backyard is too shady, is paved or is simply too small, consider the ...

The results may be stunning, but gardening on a slope isn’t without it's challenges. Seattle-area pros offer their best ...

Hybrid fruit trees are often hardier. They can also produce delicious fruit in more abundance than their parents. That's a boon for birds visiting your yard.

The American beech tree in Jim Berman and Liz Bryant’s Valparaiso backyard is officially the largest of its species in ...

Homegrown cherries taste just as good as their blossoms look.

The roots of that big tree in your yard may be infiltrating your underground plumbing right now. If the species is shallow-rooted, it's even more likely.

Owls visit your yard for food. They stick around for sleeping, nesting, and hunting purposes, if the conditions are right.

Owls are nocturnal creatures that we rarely get to see up close, but there is one really good reason to attract them. This is ...

In the Pacific Northwest, choosing trees for drought tolerance might be planting for the future, but it doesn’t have to be ...

First, select a species that will match the conditions and limitations of the desired planting site, often referred to as “right plant, right place.” ...

There's a very easy, and very cheap, way to deter rats from coming to your yard and I'll be using it this summer myself.

We create our own environment. Fort Worth was established in June 1849 as a small Army outpost. Dallas started out as a small ...