Whether you are doing the work yourself or hiring a stonemason, there a few easy things to consider as you plan to make a ...

Believe it or not, there are many gravel options you can use in your yard and garden. Here are some of the most popular types ...

Frederick Douglass gave a passionate speech seeking to rouse the conscience of America in the face of slavery. Despite much ...

“My hypothesis is that if we as a globe soak up this excess amount of water, filling the aquifer with a porous landscape, we can solve the problem of sea level rise,” he says.

What mulch should you use on your landscape beds? My first response is always organic material in the form of compost, spread about two inches thick. However, sometimes people really want to know ...

Kongjian Yu pioneered China’s “sponge city” concept—less concrete and more green spaces to exploit stormwater instead of fighting it. Metropolises all over the world are following suit.

Holes in porous pavement can get clogged with debris. Worcester uses porous pavement on some parking lots at parks. Porous pavement is 10% to 20% more expensive than traditional asphalt.

Purdue Landscape Report: Water covers approximately 71% of Earth’s surface, yet only 3% of the 326 million cubic miles of water on the planet is suitable for growing crops, such as trees.It can be ...

WASHINGTON – Mulch is practical – it holds moisture and controls weeds. It is also a design element that helps give your landscape a clean, unified look. What mulch should you use on your landscape ...

It’s good to dig about 3 feet deep, but whatever you can do is better than nothing,” Brown said. Once the hole has been dug, wrap some coarse rock in porous landscape fabric and put it in the ...

Around my trees, shrubs, and flowers, I like to use wood or bark chips, purchased in bulk from a landscape company ‘cause it's cheaper that way. (I go in with my neighbors and we split the ...

These are laid -- holes down-- into a water-permeable bed of gravel and covered with a porous "landscaping cloth" to keep out silt. It is then layered over with more water-permeable gravel and sand.