Gardening can be relaxing, therapeutic, or frustrating if you do not know which plants work best in your garden. Rock gardens are a wonderful way to amp up the visual interest in any landscaping, but ...

I wrote recently about the Australian Rock Garden at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden at UC Santa Cruz, as a resource for home gardeners. For today’s column, we’ll outline the history, design ...

Rock gardens are a budget-friendly way to turn a steep slope or tiny lawn into something beautiful. Horticulturist and author Joseph Tychonievich offers tips.

One hundred years ago a Danish immigrant named John Christensen was trying to farm near the village of Itasca. But he kept ...

If you can make space for a miniature rock garden — one of tiny plants growing within the confines of a faux-stone trough — the promise of an outsize payoff awaits. Inside the walls of a ...

As we are all leading busier lifestyles, modern rock garden ideas tick the low maintenance gardening box in a big way. The ease of rock gardens can largely be put down to their natural ...

Ancient rock drawing could be oldest image of a supernova A basic stone carving from thousands of years back may show humans' wonder at a stellar explosion, scientists say.

His contemporary pitch: Once built, rock gardens are inherently low maintenance, and diminutive versions can be squeezed into small urban gardens. This "classic design is coming back into style ...

Springfield is full of visual attractions and landmarks that draw tourists. The Hartman Rock Garden could be classified as the hidden gem among them.