Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Last year, I performed a radical act in my garden: I decommissioned the vegetable beds. That's right -- I knocked down the cover crops, raked off the square edges and neat rows of beds, and envisioned ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As you're planning your garden this year—anticipating your beds brimming with perennials and plotting out ...

One of the hardest things in gardening is designing a perennial border. You can bung a bunch of plants together and call them a border, but whether they make sense is another matter. First, let's be ...