Irene prostrate rosemary is an excellent ground cover for low-water, easy-care landscapes. Ellen Zagory This is one part in a weekly series featuring the UC Davis Arboretum’s “Life After Lawn” series ...

Several small rosemary plants growing in sky blue pots. - Sunphol Sorakul/Getty Images Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) is a popular choice for home herb gardens, but whether it grows successfully depends ...

While creeping and spreading plants make beautiful ground covers for flower beds, natural areas, or foundation plantings, they also bring lots of charm when used to fill container gardens and pots.

Underplanting is a practice of placing groundcover flora underneath larger plants to enhance either the beauty or health (or both!) of that statement garden piece, which in this case are your roses.

Rosemary that refuses to freeze? These eight tough, colorful, and fragrant varieties laugh in the face of winter — and keep your garden delicious year-round.

Since we are in drought times, it seems there is this notion that the lawn area must be brown, or mulched with chips or blanketed with rocks. This gives the garden a hot, dry, drab appearance. What if ...

After the recent rains, these orange bugs washed up all around my pool area. What are they and how do I get rid of them? Based on your description, you have "lawn shrimp." They are crustaceans and are ...