Lakeside garden

Browse landscapes and gardens. Discover new landscape designs and ideas to boost your home’s curb appeal.

Your home may be your castle, but your garden should always be your retreat. Here are the South's best gardens, filled with color, beauty, and new ideas to fill you with excitement and to give you fresh new ideas.

Today's photos are from Marni LaRose-Karen in New York state. She says, "Our home is on Mahopac Point--a peninsula on Lake Mahopac located just off of Route 6N in Mahopac, New York. Our home sits at...

Maintaining a perimeter of freshwater pond plants is important for improving water quality, preventing erosion and controlling nuisance geese

In response to years of severe erosion and environmental degradation, the Chicago Botanic Garden restored more than three-quarters of its 5.7 miles of lake shorelines, re-creating native habitat functions in conjunction with innovative bioengineering techniques. Carefully designed habitats abate shoreline erosion, while offering a widely accepted visual appeal. These re-created habitats are healthy native ecosystems that support communities of native plants and animals, improving species…