Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we are all leading busier lifestyles, modern rock garden ideas tick the low maintenance gardening box in a big way. The ease of ...

Not only do rock gardens add beauty and dimension to any outdoor space, they require little maintenance and can accommodate awkward or difficult landscapes (such as steep hillsides). No matter the ...

There can be a certain mystique about rock gardens, a feeling that they’re somehow too exotic for the typical backyard gardener. “Rock gardening is very scary to a lot of people,” said Kevin Cretin, ...

Sometimes gardeners are faced with less than ideal conditions and cannot plant a traditional garden. When the best crop in a location is rocks, the area is on a sunny slant that does not hold turf ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A rock garden is a garden, or more often a part of a garden, with a landscaping framework of rocks, stones and gravel, with planting appropriate to this ...

A gardener raises plants for their beauty, a botanist studies them for their biology, but in anyone who tends a garden there's the soul of a scientist. Plants grown for delight also invite inspection ...

Garden renovation projects might include mounds to add visual interest in an otherwise flat terrain and to provide drainage and other benefits of raised beds. A particular form of the garden mound is ...

The summer’s heat has scorched the lawn, shriveled the shrubs and caused the lettuce to bolt, yet Mt. Cuba Center’s rock garden remains unfazed. It is thriving in the heat, drought and periodic ...

DEAR JO ANN: Rock gardens typically are home to low-growing, drought-tolerant plants that grow in shape and form to complement the stones that define their bed. Alpine plants, such as cushion plants, ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.