Prairie gardens offer Midwestern suburban dwellers an alternative option to the traditional grass lawn. Their combination of native grasses, like tall and wispy bluestem and sideoats, and forbs, such ...

A new natural prairie garden has been proposed for a spot along the Naperville Riverwalk, near Centennial Beach and the sand volleyball courts. Since the 1970s, the two-acre, saucer-shaped site has ...

When I bought a house with a blank canvas of a garden, I wanted to pay homage to one of my horticultural heroes. Having admired the ethos and designs of plantsman and designer Piet Oudolf, I decided ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Horticulturist Kelly Norris has a favorite task in his Des Moines front yard: puttering. By that he means meandering, leaning into ...

Prairies once dominated the Midwest landscape from Canada to Texas and from the Rocky Mountains to Indiana. A prairie is comprised of mainly grasses with some flowering plants (forbs) and a few small ...

Phyllis Schwitzer gardens like many of us, growing beans, cabbage, hostas and daylilies. But her repertoire extends to a glassed-in greenhouse chock with ferns, begonias, a camellia and orange and ...

Prairie dropseed, or Sporobolus heterolepis, is a beautiful and showy grass native to the prairies of Ohio. Its fountain of delicate leaves can add a certain lyrical quality to a garden as they sway ...

In the golden days of summer, a prairie is in its glory. You can capture some of that glory for your garden by incorporating native prairie plants, according to Julie Janoski, manager of the Plant ...

If you want to photograph swallowtail butterflies that look like they flew out of the stained glass at Chartres, or set up an easel and paint lotus blossoms blooming as big as a head of lettuce…you’ll ...

Kirsty Grocott decided to emulate plantsman and designer Piet Oudolf when creating a new garden, composed entirely of herbaceous perennials such as the echinacea and perovskia pictured here, and many ...