When choosing any plant for your yard, it’s always important to consider the right growing conditions, but increasingly, even in temperate areas, we need to look at drought-tolerant planting as an ...

If you live in a relatively dry climate or want to develop an easy-to-maintain landscape, consider shrubs that are highly tolerant to drought. Some of the hardiest shrubs are those that can take ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lavender growing in the sunshine Lavender is a herb known for its love of full sun and it evokes images of hot Mediterranean ...

Add sparks — and bring in pollinators — to your garden beds this spring and summer with orange flowering shrubs!

As climate change brings with it hotter, drier summers and more frequent extreme weather events in many places, some homeowners are rethinking their approaches to garden design. Drought-tolerant ...

As I sit down to write, sheets of heavy rain pounding the windows make it hard to think about drought. Whether or not the current La Nina weather pattern means the third winter in a row of ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

If you are living in an area where wildfires are a threat, you may want to seriously consider planting Lomandra hystrix Tropicbelle, commonly known as mat rush, around your home. This Australian ...

Water-hungry lawns are symbols of Los Angeles’ past. In this series, we spotlight yards with alternative, low-water landscaping built for the future. Susan and Steve Matloff are doing what they do ...