A well-planned, beautiful garden includes layers of color and texture, overflowing with annuals and perennials, flowering ...

Timing matters when pruning spring-flowering shrubs, and cutting them at the wrong moment could impact next year's blooms ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Many shrubs benefit from pruning each year. We prune them to remove stray branches and suckers, keep the plants to a manageable size, and maintain an attractive shape. For some shrubs, pruning also ...

Roses, hydrangeas, azaleas and peonies are among the outdoor flowering plants recommended for Mother’s Day gifts.

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Fully bloomed azaleas are ...

I ripped out my whole overgrown front landscaping and am trying to figure out what to put in. I'm starting with new evergreens. How do you know how many of those to use in relation to flowering shrubs ...

Ornamental shrubs are vital for summer gardens, offering structure and visual appeal beyond their blooms. Experts recommend ...

THERE’S SOMETHING so sweet about these early autumn weeks when the mists rise in the morning and evenings are crisp. Sunlight slants through maple leaves, illuminating the garden and warming our bones ...

Here in the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Maybe it's because they're native and grow wild in our woods. But more ...