America’s biodiverse meadows of days gone by slowly gave way to French- and English-style turfgrass lawns. By the late 1800s, the neatly trimmed grass lawn had become a symbol of wealth. The invention ...

Planting solid sod can be done any time of the year, but fall is the very best time to plant warm-season grasses like Bermuda. 2009 File Photo / Staff There seems to be some confusion about whether it ...

QUESTION: The landscaping company I hired to address my erosion issue is scheduled to come back and put down sod in late October. I know nothing about sod and don’t necessarily trust that they will do ...

Ilana Strauss is a journalist who began writing for the Treehugger family in 2015. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Cut, New York Magazine, and other publications. Amy Cox remembers the ...

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 ...

Since the hurricane, I have been asked about what do now that the ground is bare. A quick fix for muddy and eroding areas is ...