Now, after several years working as a professional gardener, I have planted all sorts of grasses, but I remain a little in ...

A Mount Pleasant couple transformed their grassy backyard into a lush food forest with maturing fruit trees and gardens that ...

Your first taste of a ripe pawpaw, left, or American persimmon, right, may convince you to plant the trees, which can serve as the centerpiece of a permaculture food forest.

Plant Medic columnist Ricky Kemery says mature trees such as oak or maples with larger leaves can make it tough for turfgrass to grow properly in urban settings.

In ACG’s dry forest, they didn’t have to plant trees by hand. By getting rid of the grass and stopping the fires, they cleared the way for the forest’s return. The first seeds blew in with ...

A new study published in the Journal of Plant Ecology has found that temperate forest tree species, regardless of their root ...

Why is it a problem? There are several things a forest can do for the river that a patch of reed canary grass can't. When flooding happens, the deep roots of big trees slow down water and capture ...