ECO-FRIENDLY GARDENING

Turn your garden into a wildlife sanctuary with these eco-friendly tips.

Design a landscape that mimics ecosystems found in nature.

Give up your lawn for other more eco-friendly options.

Create the perfect environment to entice butterflies to visit your garden and lay eggs for a new generation.

Rain gardens hold water until it soaks into the soil and are a key feature of eco-friendly landscape design.

Ideas for using grasses, trees, groundcovers, and other plants to evoke water in a dry garden.

Create a beautiful landscape that benefits wildlife and the environment.

Reduce your water use by choosing waterwise plants for your garden and landscape.

The best rain garden plants are moisture-tolerant natives that can also endure dry periods.

Discover how to help save the bees by growing bee friendly plants in your garden. Get tips for creating a bee garden that will support pollinators and look great.

Invite delightful hummingbirds to your garden with these annuals, perennials, shrubs, and vines.

Attract butterflies to your yard with these nutrient-rich plants and flowers

Turn a patch of your garden into a banquet for beneficial insects by putting these native plants on the menu.

Turn your yard and garden into a mecca for birds by filling it with the plants, shrubs, and trees that they love.

Jim Martinez picks seven of his favorite plants to grow in desert regions, including Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

A Delaware couple built their home and gardens around a natural pond that's a haven for wildlife.

Tour Rick Darke and Melinda Zoehrer’s 1.5-acre property in Landenberg, Pennsylvania.

Welcoming all that can fly in, this natural garden is home to birds, bees, bugs, and even bats.

The owners of this Portland, Oregon, garden want to connect people with the Earth.

Tour Rick Darke and Melinda Zoehrer’s 1.5-acre property in Landenberg, Pennsylvania.

A garden in the Arizona desert designed by Christy Ten Eyck is both water-wise and chic.

Safely deal with common garden pests and diseases, including deer, squirrels, rabbits, aphids, powdery mildew, and more.

Get the dirt on composting: the benefits, what to include (and what not to), and finding the right balance.