If you’re looking for the perfect lawn alternative for your backyard, there are plenty of Australian natives that are ideal for wide, open areas in your garden. For many, grass is too high ...

"When we're looking at plants for those spaces, we encourage native ... University of British Columbia’s Botanical Garden Horticulture Training Program helped to convert the lawn in front ...

If you’ve grown up in a turf-obsessed family the thought of switching to a native plant lawn may send shivers down your spine ...

A post on the popular Reddit community r/NoLawns shows before-and-after pictures of a lawn that was transformed with native plants. “Before/After: 6 years of replacing lawn and ivy with natives.

“Please do walk on these plants,” a sign tells visitors, explaining what’s going on underfoot: a test of “low-growing native plants” as an alternative to traditional lawn. The goal is to ...

The good news is there are low-water, lushly green native lawn alternatives to tall fescue, the most popular water-guzzling king of turf grasses. But here’s the truth about these other options: ...

The edge between two homeowners' lawns shows a distinct difference between the common lawn grass, left, and John Ellis' lawn of native fescue grasses. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Times) ...

More companies are eschewing manicured grass in favor of native plants, a shift driven by the environmental costs of installing and maintaining lawns. Credit...Video by Michelle Gustafson ...