Happy almost spring! As with so many of these thorny eco-dilemmas, the answer depends upon whom you ask. Passionate people on both sides of the mulch aisle will try to convince you that this product ...

American drivers wear out nearly 300 million tires annually. That’s a lot of rubber to find a use for. One solution is to shred it, dye it, spread it around plants and call it mulch. But wait! Rubber ...

Instead of bark or chips carpet your plantingbeds with low-growing plants When it comes to mulch, green is the new brown. Instead of spreading bark, peat or straw over your planting beds, consider ...

They’re not the tallest plants in the forest, the brightest nor the showiest, yet groups of tiny ground covers still stop Elyse Jurgen on hikes. She snapped a photo in Lancaster County Park of a mix ...

That’s a decision that growing numbers of gardeners are adopting. Instead of hauling in endless bags of bark or shredded and dyed wood, they fill the empty soil in their gardens with perennial plants.

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy. June ...