Make your own cozy Tea Garden for solitary meditation or intimate conversation.

Look out your window and imagine a shaded, mysterious woodland— a place for musing and lazing, your own green, secluded paradise.

Year-by-year account of a small prairie seeded on clay subsoil in Minnesota.

Landscaping strategies for impatient gardeners.

Choreograph a journey for your visitors: create a Stroll Garden.

Transform some of your lawn to native grass and wildflowers— expert advice on planting and maintenance plus regional plant lists.

Use native grasses to replace lawns—as short turf, grassy wildland, or mixed with flowers in a meadow or prairie.

Take a peek at these lawn alternatives for urban slopes.

Which lawn to Smother first? What to put there instead?

Decide how to design away part of your lawn.

Subtly SHRINK your sward without adding obstacles to the mowing path or the view.

Make a wild area.

Shrink your lawn bigtime by building a pond, patio, or island bed in the center.

If individual trees or beds are scattered around your yard, consolidate them.

Gain privacy, attract birds and butterflies, and add four-season interest with a hedge.

Landscaping strategies for impatient gardeners.

3 books offer inspiring photos and examples of naturally landscaped urban and suburban gardens.

Stop the struggle between your tree and your lawn; make a tree island.

See photos of lawn alternatives for slopes.

Choose a theme for a more satisfying garden. A perfect place for beginners to start.

Design a satisfying combination of plants for your garden.

It isn't just a group of trees with some plants under them. Design a Naturalistic Woodland.

Human development displaces wild lands and wildlife habitat. We can create (and retain) regionally appropriate landscapes. Nature provides models for self-sustaining, wildlife-friendly, explorable gardens.

Prominent plants found in each of North America's major ecosystems.

Look out your window and imagine a shaded, mysterious woodland— a place for musing and lazing, your own green, secluded paradise.

Four signs of a healthy landscape that clash with our standards of beauty.

Prairie stories from natural landscaping pioneer Sally Wasowski.

Cooperate with your landscape and offer housing to the homeless; make a wild corner to offset dwindling natural areas.

It isn't just a group of trees with some plants under them. Design a Naturalistic Woodland.

Can we learn to admire the wildness of nature in gardens?

Shoreline buffers: an organic, low-maintenance, non-violent way to keep Canada geese and mallards off nearby lawns.

3 books offer inspiring photos and examples of naturally landscaped urban and suburban gardens.

Feeling ambitious? Try converting an abandoned field into a meadow garden.

Year-by-year account of a small prairie seeded on clay subsoil in Minnesota.

Use native grasses, and maybe wildflowers, to replace lawns.

Eight design features to make your woodland a well-loved and well-used part of your landscape.

The right trees can make your life easier and your woodland lovelier every season.