Instead of a soft, velvety lawn in my backyard, I now have what landscape designers call hardscape, an expanse of reddish, tannish decomposed granite where the grass used to grow. Although I would prefer to see thick, green turf, I haven't seen thick, gr

Unless by some miracle we receive a sizable late rain, we are entering a perilous fire season. One of the major things that you can do to protect your home is to set up a defensible space that is landscaped. This refers to the area around your home that w

The installation of the new waterline main on Main Street in East Aurora is scheduled to begin on Wed., Aug. 13. Village Special Project Coordinator Paul Gasiewicz reported that two waterline mains will be placed in the westbound travel lane on East Main

AZUSA, Calif.----In the face of below-average rainfall, very low snowmelt runoff and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's declaration of statewide drought conditions, California residents are now being called upon to reduce their water usage.

For the second summer in a row, the city of Columbia is requiring some 29,000 residential and commercial water customers in Northeast Richland to follow a lawn watering schedule linked to their street addresses. The restrictions were announced last week.