Potomac — These days, many of us are searching for alternatives to conventional lawn and garden care, a task that has become increasingly dependent on time and maintenance, as well as pesticides and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Yet a meadow garden is a precious space that’s challenging to replicate. “Meadows are relatively rare in ...

Tim Hoover installed 150 acres of meadows in his 25 years as an environmental educator at the Milton Hershey School. The majority of his 1-acre Fairview Twp. home landscape also is a series of meadow ...

Meadows are open landscapes, composed of grasses and wildflowers. The word "meadow" itself is evocative, conjuring images of Julie Andrews twirling in the Alps or bucolic, rolling farmers’ fields.

Want to step inside a painting? Visit Longwood Gardens’ new Meadow Garden, which opens Friday. “It’s like being immersed in a living Andrew Wyeth painting,” says Paul B. Redman, director of Longwood ...

Over the years, I’ve become a strong advocate for replacing unnecessary expanses of lawn with native meadows. I understand the desire to keep a play space for children and a space for outdoor ...

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The two to three weeks immediately after our last spring frost (i.e. mid to late May) are the year’s best for planting a meadow from seed. If you just want to convert a bit of lawn into something more ...

Experts at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank are turning their hand to propagating an array of native flowers to help restore vanishing habitat such as meadows. Did you know with a Digital subscription to ...