Bush clover (Lespedeza thunbergii) is one of the few plants that bloom in fall. The plant is a member of the Fabaceae family (commonly known as the pea family) and has the characteristic trifoliate ...

Add clover to the lawn? For more than 70 years, clover has been viewed primarily as a “lawn weed” that’s to be eradicated along with the dandelions, chickweed, and crabgrass in pursuit of the ideal ...

Thanks to the warmer-than-normal fall, the end-of-season landscape cleanup is still under way for a lot of us. As we traipse around, cutting back hosta or pulling tomatoes, it’s a great opportunity to ...

In the etymological timeline of the word lawn, we have laune from the 1540s, meaning "glade, open space in a forest or between woods." I can picture that—meadow-like clearings in the trees where low ...

PRESCRIBED BURN IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY. SUE MYERS AND THE TEAM AT PITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDEN TRIED EVERYTHING TO MANAGE THE INVASIVE LESPEDEZA CUNEATA, OR CHINESE BUSHCLOVER, A PLANT THAT HADN’T BEEN SEEN ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the trend for sustainable and low-maintenance yard solutions grows, many homeowners are turning to clover lawns. Formerly ...

To Ed Zumbuhl, a four-leaf clover is, well, ordinary. They have become so common in his collection of 2,300 clover plants, that Zumbuhl, 80, has stopped counting them. But he can tell you that he has ...

Plant a clover lawn as an easy-care, drought-tolerant grass alternative. Clover lawns are a hot topic on social media, which may seem surprising, given that clover has long been counted among the ...