Proponents of organic lawn care are pushing to bring clover back to wide use as a lawn plant, mixed with more conventional turf grasses. They point to clover’s benefits, which include its ability to ...

Can our lawns be more environmentally friendly? Already they produce oxygen for us to breath, collect pollutants, sequester carbon, hold soils together, minimize dust and give us a soft place to walk, ...

Wet leaves, bald patches and short days return, along with the chores that swallow your weekends and your water meter’s patience. Across the country, designers and maintenance crews report a shift: ...

It's the time of year when Canadians start watering, weeding and mowing the green, green grass of home. North America has long had a love affair with the lawn as a symbol of domestic pride and the ...

Micro-clover is an attractive addition to lawn grass. As a legume, the clover fertilizes the grass naturally by fixing nitrogen along its roots. Dear Helen: A while back, you wrote about a new kind of ...

Last year's most popular home renovation trend involved replacing grass with clovers, according to the National Association of Realtors. Around St. Patrick’s Day is a great time to plan your own.

How the COVID pandemic helped boost Michigan’s honey bee population Do you want to help save the bees? There are things you can do to your lawn to make it better for pollinators. Turfgrasses don’t ...

In the etymological timeline of the word lawn, we have laune from the 1540s, meaning "glade, open space in a forest or between woods." I can picture that—meadow-like clearings in the trees where low ...