Ground covers are the ultimate team players of landscaping. They're the plants that stay low, spreading out like a mat, covering bare spots in your lawn where soil rudely pokes through. Like, for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It seems pretty simple to plant a tree. Dig a hole. Drop in a tree. Fill the hole. Add water. Go back inside and have a beer. What ...

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Before you head out to the nursery to purchase a tree for your landscape, there are some important things to consider.

Late April is an excellent time weather-wise to plant a tree, which is why Pennsylvania decided decades ago to mark the last Friday of each April as Arbor Day. Nebraska newspaper editor J. Sterling ...

Place the stakes in the native soil surrounding the tree, spacing them equally. “You don’t want the stakes to be within the root ball, or else it defeats the purpose,” Abdi said. Drive the stakes ...

Earth Day is a day dedicated to showing support for environmental protection. Each year, Florida Power & Light maintains vegetation along approximately 17,000 miles of powerlines across Florida. The ...

Billy Haag, forestry manager with Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, offers tips on planting in the tree lawn. In the city of St. Louis, the average size of a tree lawn–that strip of grass between your ...

Staking prevents the root ball from shifting and incurring damage while the tree acclimates to its surroundings. To reap the benefits of staking, however, you must do it properly.