At the Jackson Street Reconstruction in St. Paul, bumpy paving signals to people with low vision that they’re about to cross a road or bike lane. There’s a middle island between a bike path and car ...

Al fresco living is having a moment. We’re all using our personal outdoor spaces more than ever, in fact, according to a recent survey conducted by TruGreen, folks are spending 14 hours a week outside ...

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If you would like to add spring-flowering trees to your landscape, January and February are excellent months to plant them.

You can stretch a string between stakes to create a layout line for setting bricks, but simply snapping a chalk line in the sand is quicker, plus you don’t have a string in the way. With layout lines ...

When you want to upgrade your backyard, you typically need a couple different experts: a designer and an installer. An experienced designer has a knack for where things should go and has spent years ...

As a homeowner, you probably already know about the importance of curb appeal (perhaps your home’s curb appeal is the reason the property caught your eye in the first place?). Not only does it impact ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Yardzen is an online landscape design and build platform that pairs you with top designers and vetted local contractors to create custom, beautiful outdoor spaces. Created By Brownstoner In the last ...

All organisms the natural environment most favorable to the complete development of their species, and where nature fails to meet the biologic necessities, adaptation of either environment or organism ...