My wife and I have a favorite perennial plant called sedum. Some may call it stonecrop. We call it colorful, resilient and beneficial. When we moved to Ohio with our young children, we searched for a ...

It’s hard to miss the soaring three-acre meadow that graces the top of Barclays Center. But green roofs – or living roofs — are also branching into brownstone Brooklyn, where homeowners with sturdy ...

Volunteers learning to install green roofs had their first experience by working recently on the roof of Diane Cooper's garage-sized chicken house in Cedar Hills. Cooper, project leader for a group ...

They're compact, versatile, colorful, and virtually bullet-proof in the garden. They're also not prone to bugs or disease, they need no spraying, need little water or fertilizer, and even the deer and ...

Ford Motor Co. last month unveiled the roof of its new truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. Color it green. The roof is covered with 10.4 acres of sedum, a genus of perennial plants that tops a 3-in. thick, ...

Sedum plants are one of Martha’s favorite low-maintenance yet elegant additions to her garden. They can be used throughout the garden in many different forms, including pots, flower beds, as a ground ...

I got an email this past week from a reader which had a question that I have not seen very often — at least not very often on this plant. The question I got was very strange in that only a part of the ...

The 45,000 square foot green roof on the eighth floor of the Peco Building is the largest ever installed on an existing building in an urban area of Philadelphia. 43,000 square feet of this roof are ...

Beneath an ominous-looking sky, 11 volunteers worked intently to put the roof on the brand new pavilion in the Roots and Wisdom garden on Fehr Avenue. They were in the homestretch early Monday ...