Rock and stone are one of the most versatile and durable materials you can use when landscaping a yard. While wood will eventually rot, and plastic, no matter its form, will always give landscape more ...

A gardener raises plants for their beauty, a botanist studies them for their biology, but in anyone who tends a garden there's the soul of a scientist. Plants grown for delight also invite inspection ...

The summer’s heat has scorched the lawn, shriveled the shrubs and caused the lettuce to bolt, yet Mt. Cuba Center’s rock garden remains unfazed. It is thriving in the heat, drought and periodic ...

The Itasca Rock Garden in Albert Lea is home to a Danish-inspired castle of sorts. "I drive by and see Marion Ross on the corner looking over Fountain Lake, makes me smile," said Stephanie Kibler of ...

Much is rightly made of Portland's Japanese Garden, which expanded this year. But few know that Portland has a public Scottish garden just as large, and in many ways just as lovely. On Dunthorpe's Elk ...

Artists place painted rocks in the newly created Kindness Rock Garden on the Avenue at White Marsh while helping distribute rocks painted by local artists. Artist Terri Casta places a painted rock in ...

UPDATE Sale pending on Bishop’s Close Garden at Elk Rock; can you still visit? For more than six decades, people have been allowed to walk around the gracious Bishop’s Close Garden at Elk Rock, ...

This story is a part of our "Something Good" series, which is designed to remind you of all the goodness in the world: the moments that can make you smile, feel warm inside and applaud humanity. Katie ...