An attractive yard for birds and squirrels may also lure slithering guests.

Keeping pests away comes with the territory of maintaining a garden, but you need to know what you're up against before fighting them off. While nibbling deer and pesky rodents might require one ...

If you are anything like me, you might have a strange love-hate relationship with snakes. On spying one in the yard, you might scream, recoil and dash for the door (which is totally fine, of course), ...

Green garden being watered with a hose sprayer - Andrei Naumenka/Getty Images If you suffer from ophidiophobia (fear of snakes), you probably won't welcome the news that the slithery creatures may be ...