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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

I trimmed my boxwood shrubs at home this past weekend and the whir of my hedge trimmer lulled me into thinking about the plethora of questions I routinely receive from gardeners and homeowners ...

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

Even weekend gardeners should endeavor to create an effective tree canopy for undergrowth plants in the garden.