Ornamental grasses provide an easy-to-care-for, beautiful ground cover. Do they need to be pruned, though? The answer might surprise you.

Know your grass type before you cut. For cool-season grasses, trim off no more than two-thirds of the stems to avoid stressing these plants. In contrast, warm-season grasses need to be cut back to the ...

Bob Bertog, president of Bertog Landscape Co. in Wheeling and a certified landscape professional with the National ...

As temperatures cool down, the garden seems to come alive again, especially with the recent rains. Dahlias, zinnias, and ...

The grass vs. turf debate heated up over the weekend, when Giants receiver Malik Nabers suffered a non-contact ACL tear at MetLife Stadium — and when former Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. made a ...

A YOUNG girl was killed as she stepped off the bus with her mum after a driver mounted a grass verge, a court heard. Stephen Worden, 61, was allegedly attempting to undertake the bus when he mowed ...

It was back around 1980. I, the Native Texan, found myself in the Chadwick Arboretum at my old school, Ohio State. One section featured some lovely ornamental grasses. They really hadn’t caught on ...

Besides being the greatest writer in the history of the English language, William Shakespeare was the master of the pithy put-down. So the nervous servant who tells Macbeth his castle is under attack ...

What started as a routine landscaping job in Dayton, Ohio, ended in tragedy when a 22-year-old worker was gunned down in broad daylight – all because of grass cuttings, police say. Tanner Staggs had ...

We’ve all been taught that spring is the official gardening season, full of seed packets, shiny tools and muddy knees after the thaw. But gardening experts say that thinking is outdated and may be ...

Although I seldom write about lawns, a friend recently installed a type of tall fescue grass that had been recommended to him. I had never heard of it before, but thought it was worth investigating as ...