A beautiful lawn with artificial grass and a strip of gravel along the right side of the yard along the driveway - christopher babcock/Shutterstock With the labor involved in caring for a lush lawn, ...

I love to garden, but I’m not much of a mower. It’s monotonous, and when it’s 110 degrees outside, I usually spend the time fantasizing about ripping up all the grass and planting cacti and rocks. But ...

Your neighbor may have spent thousands on a pristine plastic lawn to escape the endless cycle of mowing and watering, but that investment could soon be a thing of the past. While homeowners once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two workers installing artificial grass in yard - Martinprescott/Getty Images Artificial turf might seem like the perfect ...

It’s the American ideal: a green lawn, neatly trimmed, and free of brown spots or blemishes. Like most American ideals, it comes at a high cost—unending weekends of fertilizing, mowing, and watering.

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...

Les Bernstein may have the greenest yard in Raleigh's Falls River neighborhood, but he hasn't turned on his sprinkler system all year. After trying to maintain his fescue lawn during the drought, ...