McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Americans love their lawns -- and there's a lot to love. Grass takes up about 30 million acres of the United States. But few plants are as exalted and at...

Orange is a color in the garden that cannot be overlooked. It just reaches out and grabs you. Pair it with blue, the complementary or opposite color for orange, and...

Q. The more energy costs go up, the more determined I get to someday be energy-independent. Are the costs of solar electricity ever going to be cost-effective for the average...

When Tim Bauer decided he wanted an inground swimming pool in his Puyallup, Wash., back yard, he dove right in to the job. For nearly two months last summer --...

River Heights, fancy frocks and a gleaming blue roadster -- the very words conjure up images of days gone by, when Nancy Drew zipped around town catching crooks and thrilling...

In case you missed it, CBS announced a couple of weeks ago that those 20 tons of peanuts sent to CBS offices convinced the network to renew "Jericho" for at...

The gold duranta, with its rich golden foliage and ability to take extreme summer conditions (think Texas), is continuing to impress in trials across the country. The duranta is in...

Garage sales have a lot going for them. They motivate you to streamline your possessions. They represent the very essence of entrepreneurialism and thrift. They give you an excuse to...

Have you ever come home and wondered whether your lawn irrigation system had blown a fuse? It just might have. A geyser is shooting out of a sprinkler head. The...

The wait to adopt a baby from China used to be, appropriately, about nine months. Now it's more than doubled. "Ours is more like the term of an elephant," said...