2:53 p.m. Feb. 5, 2024: This article has been updated to correct the spelling of Jim Baird’s name. Tearing out your lawn can be a tough decision, especially if you have children or dogs who love to ...

Long before irrigation pivots and improved turf varieties, native grasses were quietly doing the hard work.

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- You may have heard about home buyouts when the county buys properties that repeatedly flood. But what happens afterwards? After the district buys a property, it's completely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One expert on social media just illustrated the dramatic difference between neglecting your lawn and restoring native prairie ...

A resilient warm-season perennial, side oats grama is good for lawns and large spaces. It mixes well with flowering perennials and gets its name from its flowering spikelets and seed heads, which ...

This will be the first in a series of articles on our native prairie grasses that can be used to enhance your yard. But first we need to know a bit more about prairies. Prairies are our heritage and ...

Budget reductions at Rivermont Golf Club placed a strain on the golf course maintenance operation. Superintendent Mark Hoban recognized that they could not afford the same amount of highly maintained ...

With pillowcases in hand last weekend, a dozen of us plant and bird lovers waded through chest-high native grasses at Panola Mountain State Park to collect ripened grass seed. Our goal was to help ...

Pollinators such as birds and moths do best when they have flowers and grasses that evolved to grow here. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star In the United States, manicured lawns have become almost ...