Design a native landscaping plan that resonates with the general public. Consider these tips to keep your landcape from being the neighborhood "weed patch".

Tips on using structural grasses and colourful perennial to create a prairie-style planting

Once you understand the basics of matrix planting, creating one of your own will be a fun and rewarding exercise. Learn how, here.

Create a mini-sanctuary in your yard with these fuss-free native prairie plants that offer color and texture, plus food and shelter for wildlife.

Mixtures of grasses and flowering perennials have, in recent years come to be known as prairie planting. Most effective in larger areas, the relaxed, naturalistic feel can also be achieved in smaller gardens.

Tips on using structural grasses and colourful perennial to create a prairie-style planting

Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional border

The gravel garden has never been more popular, thanks to the pressures of climate change—and the strange misconception that it is somehow low-maintenance.