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The article focuses on a unique urban farm in South Los Angeles, run by Jamiah Hargins, that transforms neglected yards into community-driven gardens providing fresh produce for local families.

In the article, the author reports on the victory of tennis player Novak Djokovic against Nick Kyrgions during their match on Centre Court to win his fourth men's singles title in the 2022 Wimbledon Open tennis tournament in England. Also cited are how Djokovic talked about literature and listened to classical music with his late childhood coach Jelena Gencic, and Djokovic's failure to compete in the 2022 Australian Open due to his refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

The article focuses on efforts to reinvent traditional lawns in the United States, shifting towards native plants as an eco-friendly alternative to reduce environmental damage and promote biodiversity, as demonstrated by a research project at Cornell Botanic Gardens.

The article focuses on the concept of edible landscape and permaculture, encouraging homeowners to replace conventional grass with food forests and guilds of fruiting trees or shrubs with pollinator-attracting plant companions. Topics include the benefits of pawpaw and persimmon trees, how to create a food forest with native fruiting trees, and the ease of care and adaptability of these trees in a changing climate.

The article highlights the success of homeowners Janet and Jeff Crouch of Columbia, Maryland in fighting for their nature-friendly front yard against legal complaints from their homeowner association. It shows efforts of the Crouches in defending their yard by hiring a lawyer and contacting wildlife and environmental groups. Credit is given to the Crrouches for the passage of a state law limiting homeowner association control over eco-friendly yards.

The article reports on the wedding of U.S. President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden and Peter Neal at the White House's South Lawn in November 2022.

The article presents an interview with American Catholic ecologist Bill Jacobs. Among the issues he discussed include his belief that help fight climate change by not just sowing native plants but by connecting with nature, his partnership with fellow Catholic ecologist Kathleen Hoenke to the launch the St. Kateri Habitats initiative which encourages the creation of wildlife-friendly gardens, and the growth of the St. Kateri Habitats worldwide.

The author offers suggestions on changes that can be made to care one's lawns and lawn alternatives to eliminate turfgrass and mentions views of Felicia Keesing, a professor of biology at Bard College, on risk of finding ticks in lawn.

Presents tips on growing white Dutch clover in bald spots in shady lawns where turfgrass fails in the United States.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being owned a house, and her husband and she bought a reel mower.

The article reports that Lincoln has announced plan to transform the plaza around fountain into parklike environment by blanketing with synthetic lawn and mentions installation will be opening on May 10, 2021.

The article focuses on digital content producer Thomas Zuniga who pitched a tent on lawn of his parent's home in northeast Georgia to celebrate Thanksgiving with family maintaining social distance and mentions that Thanksgiving dinner was prepared by Zuniga and was served outside.

The article discusses that the Florida and Arizona, police officers have been summoned to investigate Biden signs set ablaze and Tamp flags swiped in the night. It mentions that the homeowners, angry over their campaign signs disappearing, have set up elaborate motion-activated cameras to catch the culprits; and sneaky few have booby-trapped signs with sharp razor blades glinting underneath.

The article presents answer to a question related to taking dogs to someone's lawn.

The article presents an interview with entrepreneur Leonard and Louise Riggio, about their collection of sculpture across the lawn of their Tudor-style mansion in New York, which includes sculpture by Richard Serra snakes.

The article focuses on empty lot on west of Amtrak station which will be transformed into public park filled with lawns, walkways and redwood trees and mentions that the real estate contraction project attracts private investment from companies seeking to intellectual capital of universities.

The article focuses on the drought-friendly alternatives of planting lawns in California due to the drought experienced by the country. Topics discussed include the rebate program offered by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the featured feather grass and spiny succulents of front lawns, and the impact of El Niño in the country.

The article reports on the effort of farmer Jim Adams and his wife Rosette Adams, owners of Lawn Island Farms in Bay Shore on Long Island, New York to grow their business, cultivating crops on suburban lawns in the region.

The article discusses how the week before the start of Wimbledon's main draw, the tournament's qualifying matches are held three and half miles away and mentions how the qualifying rounds are relegated to the Bank of England Sports Ground to preserve the lawns at the All England Club.

An editorial is presented on turf grasses in the U.S. which serves the largest irrigated crops in the nation, citing the cost spend on turf lawns, the aspects of life on ground, and the contribution of lawn on earth's ecology.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for mowing the lawn.

The article discusses strategies for keeping ticks and mosquitoes out of lawns, highlighting methods for addressing difficulties arising from new breeds of the insects as of July 31, 2013. Topics addressed include strategies to prevent Asian tiger mosquitoes from breeding by reducing rainwater collections, and the effectiveness of various insect repellents.

The article reports on the lawn cutting services offered by Posti, a postal service headed by director Anu Punola in Finland.

The article provides an answer to a question of the effectiveness of pulling off buds and flower heads of dandelions planted in lawn.

The article focuses on a movement toward edible landscaping concerned with replacing front lawns across the U.S. with native plants. The experimental project "Edible Estates" by architect Fritz Haeg is a throwback to the utilitarian yards of the early 20th century when decorative lawns were seen as for the elite. The biggest concern is that while backyards are considered a homeowner's private domain, fruit and vegetable gardening in front yards may be considered disruptive to the neighborhood. Stan Cox and his wife Priti replaced their Bermuda grass lawn in Salina, Kansas, with indigenous plants like okra, pimento, bitter gourd and curry trees.

Focuses on Hollywood celebrity Rene Russo, who is championing the use of California native plants. Why Russo has become an advocate for native plants, which she is trying to promote as a low-maintenance solution to the region's water supply uncertainties; Comments of Russo; Description of Russo's garden in the Santa Monica mountains; Examples of regional native plants in her garden; Why native gardens are an anomaly in Russo's and most neighborhoods in the area; Attitudes of homeowners, many of whom refuse to give up their standard green lawns; Issue of high water bills and maintenance; How some homeowners are discovering natives and liking them; Increased popularity of artificial turf and ground covers.

Speculates on who will win the United States Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Observation that the greens are unlike any others in tournament golf; Approaches of golfers to the slippery greens; Question of whether Retief Goosen will join Hale Irwin as a three-time champion; Images from the tournament; Comments of Goosen; Reference to previous tournament winners; History of the golf course at Pinehurst.

Focuses on the way that residents of Long Island, New York are getting involved in landscaping their frontyards lavishly. Checkbook homeowners purchase expensive lawn ornaments such as fully grown copper beech tree worth $50,000. Challenge of creating a nice lawn; Competition between residents to create the most extravagant lawn; Expense of landscaping; Popularity of the deep-burgundy chocolate mimosa tree; Cost of maintaining a garden; Use of privet bushes to provide privacy; How gardens are designed for entertaining.

Reports the efforts of the New York City Parks Department to limit gatherings on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Proposal that would cap the number of events allowed on the Kentucky-bluegrass lawn; Idea that the new rules have unofficially been in effect since 1997; Comment of Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe.

The article provides an answer to a question on the importance of a perfect lawn when selling a house.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the February 27-March 6, 2014 issues including "Brown is the New Green" by Steven Kurutz, "The Wildebeest in the Room" by Penelope Green, and "Bamboo Takes a Bow" by Rima Suqi.

The article focuses on an issue concerning a contest which provides an opportunity for the public to name a lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City which is under construction.

A review is offered for the Harvest-on-Hudson restaurant located in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

The article presents the author's insights on how to save trees damaged by storms. The author relates the suggestions offered by arborists Abraham Monahan and Rick Anderson to help him preserve trees damaged by Hurricane Sandy in his yard including the removal of dirt from the base of a tree, and the use of handsaw or pole saw in cutting co-dominant branches. Moreover, the author notes the importance of proper use of chain saws for tree cutting.

VISITORS to the High Line often marvel at the panorama the elevated park affords: open-sky views across the Hudson River, an unbroken sightline up 10th Avenue to Midtown and beyond. But in recent months, in a section of the High Line around 23rd Street, a more intimate, domestic cityscape has emerged. Where the park widens to form a seating area with bleachers and a lush lawn, several apartment buildings rise up and enclose the space on either side. Three are newly constructed glass and steel towers that just began filling with residents, and the most prominent of them, the architect Neil M. Denari's sleek HL23, is so close it's as if parkgoers could walk right into one of the multimillion-dollar apartments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IN 1957, when Murray and Carol Berger moved to a red brick house with white columns in Kew Gardens, Queens, the neighborhood was considered highly desirable. Gracious brick and Tudor homes sat behind lush front lawns. Towering pin oaks, planted when the community was founded in 1910, lined quiet winding streets. The commute to Manhattan -- just 16 minutes to Penn Station aboard the Long Island Rail Road -- couldn't have been easier. When the Bergers first saw the house, on a cold December day, a fire crackled in the brick fireplace in the living room. Mrs. Berger, at the time pregnant with her first child, remembers the cheerful cabbage rose wallpaper, the oak dining set, the graciously offered cup of tea. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lincoln Center has long cultivated audiences and donors. Now the country's largest performing arts complex is learning how to cultivate grass. Home to stone behemoths like the Metropolitan Opera House and Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center has grown itself a parabola of green that opened last year as part of a campus redevelopment project. And these days, like homeowners everywhere, Lincoln Center is engaged in the joys and headaches of that suburban rite of spring: lawn care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PHOENIX -- There used to be two kinds of homeowners in this scorching city, those with dazzling green lawns irrigated by sprinklers and those with more natural backyard expanses of rocks, cactuses and desert flora, which required no watering at all. Now, though, the grass may be greener next door simply because of a fresh coast of paint. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

STEPHEN ANTONSON, an artist with a wily and mischievous point of view, is fond of saying that when he makes something, he'd like that thing to do more than just lie there. He might throw in a sight gag: a plaster bust of Pan wears a cream pie in his face; a ghostly plaster side table erupts into a fruit bowl. Or maybe he'll set up a word pun. Home in Pittsburgh from college one Fourth of July, he and a brother (he has three, all of whom are artists) built a giant plywood Ritz cracker on their parents' front lawn and painted it so it appeared to be engulfed in flames -- like a ''fire cracker,'' in fact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RARELY has a town been conceived and constructed in the glare of publicity and aura of hope that greeted Disney's master-planned, picture-perfect village of Celebration in central Florida. Expectations were so high that, in November 1995, 4,000 people entered into a lottery for the chance to win the right to pay 25 percent over the market price to move into one of the first 500 or so homes. Many of those pioneers expected Celebration to recreate the ideal of Disney World just a few miles away, not for a weeklong holiday, but for 52 weeks of the year. They thought their children would get straight A's at the model school and that there would never be a weed in their lawns. For the solidly middle-class, overwhelmingly white population, this was the adventure of a lifetime, the chance to start over in a town paved with great expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

EARLY fall is the time to assess the health of your lawn and take steps to help it grow well next spring. This year that is especially true, because all but the most pampered lawns took a beating during the long summer heat. William Carey, whose company, Master Lawns, comes highly recommended (see Angie's List), has been handling more calls than usual from people unhappy about the state of their lawns. Mr. Carey has been servicing lawns for more than 30 years in the lower Hudson Valley. ''This summer has been as stressful for grass as any in at least the last five years,'' he said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

They are the casualties in a profoundly parched region: the yellowed lawns; the scorched median strips on highways from Westhampton, N.Y., to West Orange, N.J.; and the orangy brown tree on the island in the lake in Central Park. Don't worry, says the Central Park Conservancy. The tree is not dead. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]