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Woman laying on a wood garden bench surrounded by manicured landscape.

The Invincible Yard: 25 Ideas for Lazy Landscaping

A modern house with colorful plants in the front for curb appeal.

These Are the Best Plants for Boosting Curb Appeal, According to Real Estate Pros

A backyard herb garden in the summer.

11 Herb Garden Ideas to Try This Summer—No Matter How Much Space You Have

Colorful flowering ground covers planted along a backyard fence.

10 Flowering Ground Covers That Will Bring a Pop of Color to Your Landscape

By Audrey Stallsmith

Friendly neighbors talking through a fence, one is standing next to a lawnmower

The Unspoken Rules of Neighborly Yardwork Etiquette

By Sandi Schwartz

Best Garden Fork

Garden Forks Come In Many Forms, But This One Is Our All-Around Favorite

By Steph Coelho, Bob Beacham, Mark Wolfe

Power Rake vs. Dethatcher: What’s the Difference?

Power Rake vs. Dethatcher: What’s the Difference?

By Timothy Dale

A lawn mower with smoke billowing from it.

Why is My Lawn Mower Smoking?

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, Updated by Paul Rankin

Woman taking care of plants and herbs in her garden.

Ornamentals vs. Edibles—Why Not Both? How to Achieve Our Favorite Garden Design Trend in Your Yard

By Sandi Schwartz

Several of the Best Grass Shears laying side by side

We Tested 11 Pairs of Grass Shears—These 8 Are a Cut Above the Rest

By Mark Wolfe, Kat Hodgins, Katie Barton

Flowering lily of the valley shrub in bloom

5 Easier Options Than These Temperamental Plants

By Sandi Schwartz

Woman aerating the garden lawn with a digging fork.

How to Aerate Your Lawn

By Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

A group of the best gas string trimmer options together outside on the ground

We Spent 2 Days Testing the Best Gas String Trimmers. Here Are Our Top Picks

By Timothy Dale, Mark Wolfe

A man squats to collect pine mulch and put it in a bucket.

Guide to Using Pine Straw Mulch

By Mark Wolfe, Updated by Gretchen Heber

Person wearing work gloves pulls up dandelion with garden trowel.

How to Get Rid of Dandelions in Your Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Teresa Odle

Purple Crap Myrtle tree on a sunny day.

13 Drought-Tolerant Trees to Consider Planting in Your Yard

By Audrey Stallsmith

Group of Lightweight Garden Hoses inside a turquoise garden cart

After 8 Hours of Hands-On Testing, Here Are the Best Lightweight Garden Hoses for Easy Handling

By Debbie Wolfe, Timothy Dale

White brick house with red shutters and foundation plants in the front yard

7 Plants That Look Great Around the Foundation—and 3 Never to Grow There

By Sandi Schwartz

Close up view of the bottom half of a lawn mower, dusty in the grass.

My Lawn Mower Won’t Stay Running. What’s Wrong With It?

By Brie Greenhalgh

The Best Power Hedge Trimmers

Transform Your Home’s Curb Appeal With This Power Tool

By Mark Wolfe, Timothy Dale, Andreana Lefton

The grass of a lawn burning in a wildfire.

Fire-Resistant Landscaping Tips Every Homeowner Should Know

Woman tending to garden and digging up plants

7 Plants You Should Divide in Spring to Fill Out Your Home Landscape

By Sandi Schwartz

A gardener digging up perennial plants to divide them into more plants.

A Master Gardener Explains When and How to Divide Perennials for More Free Plants

By Lauren Landers

A woman in a white and black striped shirt prunes a bright azalea bush.

How to Prune Azaleas for Regular Maintenance and Rejuvenation

By Audrey Stallsmith

A beautifully designed flower bed in a backyard.

7 Garden Design Tips for Lusher Flower Beds

By Lauren Landers

American traditional center hall colonial revival brick home with dormers.

This Is The Garden Type Tailored to Your House Style

By Sandi Schwartz

A woman using shears to cut back a climbing plant growing up over a fence.

7 Escape Artist Plants You Should Always Keep Contained

By Sandi Schwartz

Someone out of frame pours oil into a red lawnmower.

What Type of Lawn Mower Oil Should I Use?

By Amy Lynch, Teresa Odle

Woman wearing sweatshirt tries to start lawn mower in her yard.

9 Fixes For When Your Lawn Mower Won’t Start

By Tony Carrick, Manasa Reddigari

A charming mailbox surrounded by nice landscaping plants.

7 Mailbox Landscaping Ideas You’ll Want to Copy

By Savannah Sher

Woman wearing jeans pulls start cord on a red lawn mower.

How to Start a Lawn Mower

By Bob Vila, Updated by Tony Carrick

Mother and daughter having gardening time outside on the front yard of their suburban house in the Spring.

Permeable Hardscaping and 7 Other Outdoor Living Trends to Know Before Summer

By Sandi Schwartz

Red lawn edger runs along a driveway cutting grass beyond the driveway.

How to Edge a Lawn

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila, Updated by Paul Rankin

Person in blue sweatshirt and jeans driving one of the best riding mowers for hills and uneven yards

The Best Riding Lawn Mowers for Hills, Tested and Reviewed

By Mark Wolfe, Mike Bruton, Tom Scalisi

8 different pairs of pruning shears lined up on a concrete slab

The Best Pruning Shears, According to Testing

By Glenda Taylor, Mark Wolfe

The Best Weeding Tools Options

This Handy Tool is a Must-Have for Any Gardener

By Mark Wolfe, Heather Blackmore, Timothy Dale

Photo of a young woman planting a small tree in her backyard

Is Your Yard Disaster-Proof? 5 Projects That Could Protect Your Home

By Sandi Schwartz

Sharpening an orange hedge trimmer on work bench with work gloves on.

How to Sharpen Hedge Trimmers

By Bob Vila, Tony Carrick

A stunning backyard landscape with flowering and non-flowering plants.

11 Plants That Look Stunning in a Home Landscape With or Without Blooms

A house and yard with a blooming dogwood tree in the foreground.

10 Types of Dogwood Trees to Beautify Your Yard Year-Round

By Audrey Stallsmith

Lumberjack makes notch cuts in trunk to fell a tree.

How to Fell a Tree

By Glenda Taylor, Michelle Ullman, Updated by Timothy Dale

Tree stump in a garden in with new green shoots sprouting from its cut stump.

How to Kill Tree Roots Naturally

A man pushing an electric lawn mower (left) and a gas lawn mower (right).

Gas vs. Electric Lawn Mowers: Which Are Better?

By Glenda Taylor, Updated by Tony Carrick

Happy man installing artificial lawn at home

How to Lay Artificial Grass

By Jennifer Noonan, Bob Vila

A group of the best battery chainsaws pictured together on a stack of logs

We Tested the Best Battery Chainsaws, and Our Favorite is a Powerhouse

By Tony Carrick, Mark Wolfe, Mark Clement

The Best Cordless Leafblowers

We Tested the Best Cordless Leaf Blowers, and Our Favorite Provides Massive Power for Cleaning Yards

Green lawn (with a bit of clover) in a colorful landscaped formal garden.

How to Level a Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Bob Vila, Teresa Odle

Mother on ladder hands some newly trimmed ivy to her young sons, who are helping clean up.

How to Kill Ivy

A father and son are staking a young tree together.

How to Stake a Tree the Right Way

By Jennifer Noonan, Updated by Teresa Odle

Sunseeker Robotic Lawn Mower Review

This Robotic Lawn Mower Is a Smarter Mower Without a Boundary Wire

A hydrangea flower dried up with snow piled atop it in the winter months.

How to Protect Hydrangeas in Winter so They Bounce Back Better Than Ever Come Spring

By Lauren Landers

A certified pollinator sign in front of a garden of tall wild flowers.

These Homeowners Killed Their Grass Lawns for Native Plants—and They Say You Should, Too

Person raking colorful fallen leaves in yard.

Should You Leave the Leaves on Your Lawn This Fall?

By Sandi Schwartz

Close up view of moss and leaves on the ground.

How to Get Rid of Moss in Your Lawn

By Kat Hodgins, Bob Vila, Michelle Ullman

Hardscaping stairs in a backyard with a stone wall and foliage.

How Much Hardscaping Is Too Much? Experts Weigh In

White house with green shutters in the background of an overgrown garden.

This Low-Maintenance Garden Trend Can Also Improve Your Home Value

By Sandi Schwartz

Pink-and-white saucer magnolia tree (Magnolia x soulangeana) flowers are in full bloom on a spring day.

15 Types of Magnolia Trees Every DIY Landscaper Should Know

By Audrey Stallsmith

Close-up of teal hydrangea flowers.

How to Showcase the 2025 Garden Color of the Year in Your Yard

By Sandi Schwartz

The florets and spikes of a buffalo grass (Bouteloua dactyloides) blade are visible as the grass self-spreads in the wild.

Buffalo Grass: The Ultimate Low-Maintenance Lawn?

A bumblebee on a flower within a diverse flower bed.

New Study Explains Critical Factors for Pollinator Gardens

By Sandi Schwartz

A woman is pruning a fruit tree in front of her home.

Prune These 10 Plants Before Summer Ends (Your Future Self Will Thank You)

Person inserts a soil test probe into a hole in a grassy yard.

How to Test Soil pH

A suburban blue home with a tree planted in front of the front windows to provide shade.

7 Landscaping Strategies That Can Lower Your Home’s Energy Costs Year-Round

flower bed ideas

32 Inspiring Flower Bed Ideas for Yards of Any Size

By Deirdre Mundorf