Landscape lighting can do a lot to enhance your home’s exterior, but it can be frustrating when you're constantly replacing burned-out bulbs. There are a variety of reasons why your outdoor lighting ...

Spring has officially arrived after a brief cool spell accompanied by some much-needed rain earlier this week. Temperatures appear to have stabilized, which means we are probably out of the woods for ...

Where did you intern? What did you do there? Over the past two semesters, I’ve been working as an intern at Savino & Miller Design Studio, a local firm that provides services in landscape architecture ...

This past year, I had to retrofit my landscape. The traditional green lawn was swallowing up too much water. Not only was it a gluttonous use of the precious water resource, but also water rates had ...

I have, or rather, had, two fully grown Blue Spruce pine trees which beautifully framed my front yard, and which to me were a valuable part of my landscape. A couple of months or so ago, we received a ...

Jack and Maxine Wade of Fultondale wanted a backyard that they could use and enjoy. The Wades bought their home in 2000, and the backyard was fenced in and unfinished. Before the makeover, there was ...

Autumn is one of my favorite seasons. The landscape first turns yellow, then orange, before snow eventually covers everything ...

Dear Roger: I liked your column listing the best and easiest-to-grow plants for the Sandhills. But you didn’t mention many shrubs. I’m at the place in my landscape design where I’m wanting the best ...

An-My Lê was born in Saigon, in war-torn Vietnam, in 1960. After an interim in Paris while her mother studied at the Sorbonne, in 1975 the family was offered a new life as political refugees in ...