Native prairie landscaping

Looking for some front yard ideas that will impress the neighbors? We've gathered 82 ideas here that range in difficulty from beginner to experienced, and in between.

If we want gardens to look less weedy then we need to stop pampering wild plants and give them what they want -- tough competition and limited resources.

I purchased this home in May of 2004. Since I brought over 30 plants from my prior home and I rarely walk away from a plant sale or nursery empty-handed, I immediately began working on the landscaping. Almost five years later, I continue to find the need for a new bed, a bigger bed, a new plant or a plant that needs to be relocated. Below is quick tour of the last four and a half years in my garden. April 2004. It all started in 2004 with a plain, 30 year old house with a plain landscape to…

Tips on how to make a small prairie in your garden.

An Iowa gardener takes cues from nature to create an easy-care wildlife haven filled with colorful native plants.

Native plants are more hardy, less disease resistant, and better for nature. Here are 9 beautiful ones or the Midwest that you want in your yard.

Plano's first and my garden's first landscape tour was last Saturday. I am not sure anyone knew what to expect. Based on the turn out and response received to my garden, I think the tour went well. At least 243 people passed through my garden during the six hours the tour was open and more continued to stop or drive by for the next couple of hours. Somewhere around 3:20, the doorbell rang and a woman that said she had a late start wanted to ask questions and look around. I was exhausted…

I have been thinking about the future of my prairie garden for a while and now on April 1, I have finally made the difficult decision that it is time to abandon this foolishness and declare my four year prairie garden experiment a mistake and a waste of time. I know this will come as a shock to many, but I have thought long and hard about this and the truth of the matter is that I miss my lawn and I want it back. I wish I could have known how much I would miss my lawn before I went through…

Design a native landscaping plan that resonates with the general public. Consider these tips to keep your landcape from being the neighborhood "weed patch".

Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional border