ORGANIC GARDENING has evolved from growing healthy vegetables to a more pervasive ethos of tuning in to nature’s rhythms. For dedicated flower gardener Christina Frutiger, this means offering her ...

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Q: My wife and I planted several flats of ‘Elfin’ thyme (Thymus serpyllum ‘Elfin’) in an area near our driveway to fill in around some stepping stones, pretty much in full sun. It was doing very ...

Q We have just been approved for the rebate program and have taken out the lawn. This space has a bit of a slope and we want to know if you have any suggestions for which ground cover we should use to ...

I really enjoy answering your thought-provoking garden and landscape questions. So, since they have reached the high-water mark again, let's take a look at some. QWe moved into a house with a back ...

Everything in my kitchen garden works for a living. The trees bear fruit or nuts, and the shrubs, the vines, the flower beds, even the animals have jobs to do. The lawn is no different. When I built ...

Using paving stones as an alternate walkway or to add attractive hardscaping to a garden is now commonplace in many a garden. In many cases, that raises the issue of what to plant between those pavers ...

Q: We have a long, grassy parking strip that we are tired of mowing. I want to cover all the grass with newspapers and bark and smother it to death. (Smothering is a lawn-killing method I heard you ...