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

Artificial turf will never look quite like authentic grass, in part because real grass is varied and disorderly while turf is uniform. Rolls of turf feature fibers that all face in one direction ...

Synthetic artificial turf was first introduced in the 1960s as a way to replace costly and maintenance-heavy grass fields with an easy-to-maintain turf that mimics the “look and playability of ...