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How To Calculate Cubic Yards Mulch Per Square Feet

Here you will find a calculator to help you determine how much mulch you need to cover an area.

How to Mulch Your Yard

Mulch provides a lot of benefits and should be a part of your regular outdoor maintenance plan. Here's how to get the most out of mulching.

16 Invasive Species Sold at Garden Centers You Should Never Buy

These 16 invasive species of plants are commonly sold at garden centers - beware of them and DO NOT buy them from your garden store!

Top 10 Plants You Can't Kill

Tough as nails, but they're pretty, too. Turn your black thumb into a green thumb with our picks for the top 10 plants you can't kill.

What Landscape Maintenance Can Do for Your Property

Perfectly manicured lawns, healthy trees, and flowering gardens don’t get that way by accident—they need regular maintenance. But maintaining your landscaping is time-consuming. Instead, turn this task over to a professional landscaping company, who will know how to identify potential problems like plant diseases, and who can give you great advice on the types of …

How to Plant a Cactus Container Garden

Yee-haw! Turn a container into a desert landscape by filling it with prickly cacti and other succulent plants.

Photographers Who Galvanized Landscape Photography...

Landscape photography is an important category in the world of photography with photographers who are still expanding the genre today.

Why you should spend the night at Bartlett Nature Center

Bartlett Nature Center makes a great venue for your next birthday party, field trip or group activity.

7 Photography Exercises to Take Your Nature Photos to the Next Level

You'll soon be taking nature photos like a pro when you use these nature photography exercises. They are fun and easy and designed to achieve great photos.

It’s time to bring nature into our built environments

5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design

These organizations are taking hints from nature to tackle thorny human problems.

Mimicking nature, an artificial leaf can recycle CO2

An artificial leaf created by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago captures greenhouse gas and puts it to work again.

Sky bridges and gardens aren’t real public spaces. Here’s why that matters

We shouldn’t abandon the cities we have for some amenities in the clouds.

What Nature Can Teach Us About Life

Why does nature inspire us? Why are we in awe of certain scenery? Why do we find these landscapes, oceans, and stars so breathtaking? We h...

Nature and Structure Are One

When we think of paths through nature, we may first think of somewhat muddy trails carved out willy-nilly through the trees, covered in leaves. But a few landscape architects and architects have be…

Grasslands May Soon Produce More Greenhouse Gases Than They Sequester

The world’s grasslands are an essential carbon sink, and may even be more efficient at capturing atmospheric carbon than trees. But thanks to animal agriculture and fertilizer use, they’re now producing as much greenhouse gas pollution as they sequester, according to a new study published in Nature Communications on Tuesday.

28 Times You Can Clearly Tell Mother Nature Went To Art School