Find out how to landscape your home with a nature-based, native plant approach.

Turning lawns into meadows can have big benefits for people, wildlife and the climate. Here's why 'meadowscaping' has become ...

In a new series, Xpress spotlights local experts who have positive visions for the future and ideas about what Asheville ...

Educating yourself may be the start of your own journey towards the beauty and life one finds in a more native landscape. So, let’s get started! Identify the plants you have. Are your ...

Five benefits of rainscaping: 1. Easy to design, install and maintain. 2. Provide aesthetic appeal while blending into the ...

DT: A common one is that native landscaping is essentially the lack of landscaping and you just stop doing anything. That’s not true at all. They think all native plant landscapes are wild and messy, ...

Just email me at [email protected]. Native plants are up first this month. After reading Cynthia’s column, I smiled at the “leaving leaves on the landscape.” I have been known to steal leaves ...

Xenia Adjoubei, an urban designer and professor at Pratt’s Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design program, said landscapes that utilize meadows and native plants tend to be ...