If you want to start a garden, but you don't have time to tend to one, turn to a system that's been growing in popularity for its eco-friendly and low maintenance reputation: gravel gardens. It's a ...

When you set out to DIY a garden pathway, one of the easiest surfacing options to install is stone, like gravel or crushed rocks. By creating a pathway with these materials, you can effectively ...

Drought-tolerant plants are skyrocketing in popularity as summers get hotter and extreme events like heat domes become more frequent. Many drought-tolerant plants resist being spoiled and languish in ...

Gravel gardens are fairly low maintenance, cost-effective, and don't require much water. Even more important to homeowners, they can look beautiful too. Gravel gardens suit drought-tolerant plants ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Emily Green, our columnist on drought-tolerant gardening, says it better ...

WASHINGTON — You don’t need dirt to have a green thumb. It turns out, you can grow a pretty wild garden in a few cups of gravel. Richard Campbell, of Ellicott City, Maryland, has been gardening sans ...

A gardener raises plants for their beauty, a botanist studies them for their biology, but in anyone who tends a garden there’s the soul of a scientist. Plants grown for delight also invite inspection ...

The phrase “gravel garden” doesn’t resonate with Jeff Epping, although he’s a leading proponent of adopting this planting style, which is beautiful and exceptionally resilient. “I’ve never liked the ...

Diblik's solution is a gravel garden. He says there are a million places where a gravel garden makes sense. He was first introduced to this concept at a trial garden near Heidelberg, Germany, where he ...

There was a time when the only gravel gardens were in the desert. In lands of little rain, where soils are porous and well drained, this surfacing material has proven highly successful. Problems arose ...

The uniquely-styled, one-of-a-kind Hillside Waterwise Garden at Reiman Gardens will attract national attention when it is featured in the U.S. Botanic Garden’s new exhibit “Celebrating New American ...