Evergreens should form the backbone of your front yard planting scheme, providing a focal point with one distinctive style on show or alternatively providing a framework against which other plants can ...

It’s fairly easy to have a beautiful landscape in spring and summer, but you’re really showing your green thumb if come wintertime your landscape stands out on a street of leafless, dull brown sticks.

With luminous foliage and vivid red stems this dazzling abelia has style to spare.

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Nothing detracts from a garden more than empty pots, or worse yet, pots filled with dead plants left over from summer displays. This is a great time to repot them with a combination of colorful ...

Winter can feel like nature's way of hitting the snooze button. Frosty mornings, bare trees, and endless shades of gray often dominate the landscape, making gardens feel dreary and uninspired. But ...

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. An evergreen flowering ...

February can be the cruelest month for Houston area gardeners, especially following spells of record-breaking cold. We don't have the blues. We have the browns. Landscapes normally filled with greens ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – It's easy to grab the pretty flowers staring back at you from the nursery shelves but try straying from the usual and plant vibrant shrubs to spice up the garden. Experts with the ...

Q: Do you have suggestions for a privacy barrier along our back fence? We'd like to screen two big, neighboring houses. Perhaps upright, fairly narrow evergreen shrubs will help. I was considering ...