Would you like to dress up your tree with a garden around it? That’s fine — as long as it consists of compatible plants in the ground, and is not a raised planter. Raised planters are a common sight ...

How deep should your mulch be? Expert gives top tips for your garden this spring - ‘Nine times out of 10, a customer is going to choose aesthetics over nearly everything’ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black, brown, red, cypress, hardwood, pine, bark, nuggets, needles, stones – many options of mulch are available to a homeowner or ...

Q: I have used wood chips from tree cutting services for some time under oaks and places grass will not grow with great success. I’m now wondering if I can use them in the flowerbeds versus using pine ...

I think I’d be hard pressed to find a gardener unaware of mulch, that stuff you put under plants to help keep down weeds and make your landscape beds look more defined. But there’s more to mulch than ...

Mulch may attract termites, but not for the reasons you think. Find out why mulch attracts termites and how to safely use it ...

The purpose of a garden path is to make it easier to get where you’re going. But garden paths are also important ...

Christmas trees represent the essence of the season. Yet the fate of approximately 250,000 trees will be the landfill. There is an alternative. If we chip live trees into mulch instead of toss in the ...

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Green-Wood Cemetery, in partnership with ...