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Plants perform all kinds of services. Trees can provide wildlife habitat, fragrance, edbiles, and shade. Living fences screen out views. Rain gardens absorb and filter stormwater runoff. Shoreline plantings preserve water quality. Groundcovers act as living mulch, keeping ground cool & moist and preventing germination of unwanted seedlings.

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Perennial Edibles: Growing a Low-maintenance food garden

Reduce your personal energy "footprint" and your garden chores by growing some of your own food in a perennial garden.

Clover Improves Your Lawn

Clover makes your lawn healthier, easier to maintain, and more stylish.

SHRINK Your Lawn Method #1: Hedge the Edge

Gain privacy, attract birds and butterflies, and add four-season interest to your yard by framing it with a hedge.

Ten Herb Gardening Books Reviewed and Compared

One of these might be just the resource you need to create your herb garden.

Short Plants for a Shade Garden

LessLawn delves into the shadier side of gardening and comes up with a list of plants to try in your shady borders.

LAWNLESS Landscapes #2: A Woodland

Look out your window at that wasteland of dried-up lawn, and imagine instead a shaded, mysterious woodland, a place for musing and lazing, your own green, secluded paradise. Yes, it's a long-term investment, but the payoff may come sooner than you think.