No mowing, no watering? Increasingly, luxury landscape designers are relying on artificial turf, once regarded with disdain.

Realistic-looking synthetic turfs and tighter restrictions on water use have made artificial grass an attractive, economical landscaping option in many areas.. It’s important to know how to ...

Artificial turf needs regular brushing, can be home to moss just like real grass and will need hosing down in hot weather if it starts to smell from a build-up of dog or fox urine.

Artificial grass—which traces its synthetic roots rather unglamorously to the athletic stadiums that first popularized Astroturf in the mid ’60s—is in vogue in certain landscape design circles.

It's an ongoing debate in soccer circles whether artificial turf is good for the sport. To host an international soccer game, a university recently had to truck in grass to cover its turf.