Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Does your yard have a hard-to-mow slope? Or, if ...

Garden renovation projects might include mounds to add visual interest in an otherwise flat terrain and to provide drainage and other benefits of raised beds. A particular form of the garden mound is ...

While it’s common to incorporate rocks into landscape designs, most of the time it’s in the form of a border around plants or a tree, or creating a path through a yard or garden. But there’s another ...

The high point of your mound is hostile to plants. Yours is likely made long ago and you've discovered problems there. It may be very difficult to keep plants growing. Most of the time this is due to ...

YONKERS - A rock garden at Untermyer Gardens lost for decades to overgrowth will begin reconstruction in October. Stephen Byrns, chairman of the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, found photos of the rock ...

In the American West, water is so alarmingly scarce these days that California has imposed restrictions and, as the Sacramento Bee reports, landscapers are planting desert plants and rock gardens. The ...

PHOENIX — For nearly half a century, Marion Blake had one wish: to see the Rock Garden she’s cared for since 1980 receive the recognition it deserves. This Christmas, her wish finally came true. “I’ve ...