Micro-clover is an attractive addition to lawn grass. As a legume, the clover fertilizes the grass naturally by fixing nitrogen along its roots. Dear Helen: A while back, you wrote about a new kind of ...

Wet leaves, bald patches and short days return, along with the chores that swallow your weekends and your water meter’s patience. Across the country, designers and maintenance crews report a shift: ...

With increasingly strict water rationing in most of our immediate futures, there is a lawn alternative that requires irrigation no more than once a week and can make do with even less. This ...

Proponents of organic lawn care are pushing to bring clover back to wide use as a lawn plant, mixed with more conventional turf grasses. They point to clover’s benefits, which include its ability to ...

Clovers are making a comeback in lawn seed mixes. Today, many families want to attract more pollinators to their yards. They are searching for ecologically sound ways to grow grass, including adding ...

Ah, the perfect lawn: a thick, lush, uniform carpet of even height, absent any diversity — or bare spots — and green as far as the eye can see. Until some pesky clover makes an appearance, mucking ...