A small shady backyard doesn’t mean you can’t have a beautiful garden. Here are small evergreen plants for shade: use them to ...

If you’re hoping to catch the blazing colours of autumn, your best bet is to head to your nearest arboretum. I was lucky ...

When less is happening in the garden in the colder months, the evergreen, flowering shrub, Daphne blooms in winter. Small clusters of fragrant flowers ranging in colors from pink, lavender or ...

As the foundation of a landscape, shrubs are small- to medium-sized woody plants ... While most people think of shrubs as the building blocks for an evergreen backdrop that defines the home ...

Flowering shrubs are a mainstay of a garden, offering privacy, borders and beautiful blooms in different seasons. Here are some of the most common to grow.

Most people know how to slash energy costs indoors, but did you know you can save up to 25 percent on your energy bill with ...

With little to no yard space, these Fairmount neighbors instead create elaborate arrangements of flowers and plants in pots, ...

Jerry Somalski, owner of Bay Landscaping in Essexville, MI, calls the group of trees, green shrubs, flowering shrubs and evergreens “woody ornamentals.” In his world, a woody ornamental is any ...

or becoming too shaded by younger growth above it), and it will be more noticeable on some evergreens than others. Q: In a public garden, I recently saw clusters of large reddish flowers on bare stems ...

In the autumn garden, don’t waste a second of precious late-season sunshine. Embrace the glow of gorgeous reds, golds, umbers ...