There's more to it than simply planting grasses and herbaceous perennials. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has ...

Count on queen of the prairie, also called meadowsweet, to pick up the floral show in your garden when spring-blooming perennials are spent. In midsummer, cloudlike clusters of pink or white blooms ...

Unsplash Most gardens wage a constant war against weeds. The mulch gets replenished, the hoe comes out every few weeks, and ...

Do you like the idea of rewilding, but without a swathe of overgrown nettles and brambles taking over? Prairie planting may be the way to go. You may not have the vast landscape of the prairies of ...

Loved for its relaxed, informal and romantic style, prairie planting seeks to replicate the American prairies of the Midwest. Using native species and minimal human input, prairie gardens continue to ...

Cue: native plants. These local grasses and flowers support an array of pollinators and insects, which in turn feed our regional birds and other critters. Landscaping with native species is no secret, ...

In July and August, gardens, wild spaces and prairies have been replete with compass plants. I’ve seen dozens at the corner of Midlothian and Magnolia Road in Mundelein, and hundreds in a prairie at ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...