Q: I'm thinking of planting some items along the side of our sand mound. In doing research, I understand that certain groundcovers should not be used on or near a sand mound. I came across some plants ...

I need to redo a portion of my lawn. The soil's pretty bad... about a half-inch of topsoil over heavy clay subsoil. I assume I'll need to improve the soil before replanting new grass. To preserve ...

WASHINGTON — You don’t need dirt to have a green thumb. It turns out, you can grow a pretty wild garden in a few cups of gravel. Richard Campbell, of Ellicott City, Maryland, has been gardening sans ...

Such shocking pink in the middle of the hot, dry woods…you wouldn’t expect to see it, yet that is where our psammophyte grows. “Psammos” (you don’t pronounce the “p”) is the Greek word for sand, and ...