Listen to water officials from Gov. Jerry Brown down to local officials and you’d think replacing lawns with drought-resistant plants or artificial turf is a pure good, no negatives involved. They ...

co-owners Mike Smith and Maurice Horn are big fans of quarter-10 gravel. I've never been to the nursery when I didn't see a big hill of it. They use the gravel in garden beds to increase drainage and ...

For decades, carpets of lush, green suburban lawns have been icons of an attractive, well-maintained home. But our recent drought has made more than a few homeowners reconsider the composition of ...

Are the grass pathways in your garden looking worn? It's easy to renovate them by adding gravel, compost and grass seed. Grass-and-gravel paths have many advantages. They wear and look better than ...

For a guy who teaches high school students how to fix lawn mowers, Rich Riolo doesn't really need one himself -- not since Memorial Day weekend, anyway. Riolo and his wife, Debbie, got rid of grass, ...

Bard on the Beach’s (BOTB) proposal to remove part of Vanier Park’s lawn and replace it with a hard surface such as pavement or gravel has prompted critics to question how much of an impact commercial ...

A swath of the slow-spreading evergreen groundcover pachysandra can be seen at left. Low-growing groundcovers such as pachysandra can be used to replace lawn in places where grass struggles. Fred ...

How bad is California’s drought? “Imagine a disaster movie in which 22 million people are told that they have only 12 to 18 months of water left. Unless Southern Californians pull together, we will be ...

My lawn is dead, and will not be growing back. No matter what secondary watering restrictions are unveiled this summer, my yard is not coming back. I can live with this, since I followed last summer ...