Looking to upgrade your lawn but tired of the same old patch of grass? A beautiful lawn doesn’t have to mean high maintenance ...

Before you get started, visit your local lawn and garden store to find the right seed. You should choose seed that matches ...

Coastal Plain lawn care requires warm-season grasses. Some of these include: Bermuda grass, St. Augustine grass, carpet grass. Warm-season grasses take a while to green up.

If you lawn is looking a little sad, check the weather before applying fertilizer. Fertilizing the lawn in the wrong ...

I just moved into a new home from an apartment and now have to start mowing my lawn. So I need some advice on how best to proceed with this task.— Jamie Anderson, Highland ParkIt’s been a good ...

"I love this transformation every year." Homeowner shares beautiful before-and-after photos of yard transformation: 'There's just no way that's the same garden' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Next to sunshine, the next most vital ingredient in getting and keeping a healthy lawn is water. Generally, most grass needs 1 to 1.5 inches of water per week.

Landscapers agree that there is a perfect height to be maintained when it comes to your lawn—and you're likely cutting it too ...

According to the Natural Resource Defense Council, grass lawns consume nearly 3 trillion gallons of water a year, 200 million gallons of gas (for all that mowing), and 70 million pounds of pesticides.

Yarrow looks beautiful in a lawn, Breece added, but doesn’t flower well at short heights. Clover, though, is a workhorse, so much so that it tends to shade out other plants.