Planting strips offer opportunities to add an abundance of plants as a gift to passersby on the street. Sue Sherbrooke, a homeowner in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, has designed and installed ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – When it comes to preparing a field for planting, farmers usually fall into one of two camps: those who till it all, and those who leave it all untilled. There is a middle ground ...

Carrie Lacina affixes the label to her new tree. (Friends of Trees) It’s an uncharacteristically sunny fall day and several neighbors on SE Hawthorne Avenue are using shovels to widen a planting hole ...

Hellstrip gardens are just what they sound like: A little swath of earth that’s not the easiest to plan or plant. Coined by horticulturist and author Lauren Springer Ogden in the 1990s, the term ...

People notice it every day. While your secret display garden may be around back, the strip of land between the sidewalk and street has no down time when it comes to visitors. Why not make a splash?

Environmental scientist Marie Massa has spent three years transforming a long, weedy strip of trash-filled public land into a fragrant native plant garden on Avenue 20, which she's named the Lincoln ...

, "Parking strips designed for beauty and drought tolerance by Portland gardeners," generated so much interest and questions, a follow-up is in order. Q: Somebody told me recently that most parking ...