Over the past several months, I've received questions prompting me to write about basic landscape design principles. I see many landscape designs that, with a little help, could be outstanding. Here ...

After 18 years working in the landscape design business, Margie Grace got her contractor’s license and hung her own shingle in 2000. Today, Grace Design Associates works on about 20 projects each year ...

If you're looking to protect (or ogle at) swallowtails, hummingbirds or chipmunks, your landscaping matters. How to find and ...

Landscaping is an art and a science, requiring both observation and design skills. A good landscaper understands the elements of nature and construction, blending all of the diverse elements, the ...

Jeffrey Erb of Jeffrey Erb Landscape Design, whose firm has handled terraces, patios, and backyards of all shapes and sizes throughout the city. The assignment: A thin, bare-dirt brownstone lot, about ...

Q: We’re a young couple who just moved into our first house. It needs quite a lot of fixing up, and we have limited funds for landscaping right now, but we want to get started. The property is about ...

To get some clues we talked to seven Quad-City area landscapers, a Scott County Master gardener, and a university horticulture instructor. Their answers are not the end-all of landscape design. But ...

Good landscaping takes balance and a plan. For Penn State Master Gardener Pamela Hubbard, the goal of landscaping for her Effort property was to create a garden that makes the best use of space, ...