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 ...

Before you head out to the nursery to purchase a tree for your landscape, there are some important things to consider.

Loropetalum, sometimes known as Chinese fringe flower, is a superb, spring flowering, lightly scented evergreen shrub for milder climates. Reliable, adaptable and impressively drought tolerant, ...

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 ...

The next few weeks are the year’s best to prune flowering shrubs that have already finished blooming for the year, as well as most evergreens. Spring-flowering woody plants (ones that bloom in March, ...

Flowering shrubs bring color and excitement to a landscaped bed while boosting your home’s overall curb appeal. Dione Lineberry, owner of Blue Ribbon Lady Landscaping, utilizes a variety of shrubs in ...

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 ...

Pruning maple trees, birches, and willows in winter is not recommended because they are prone to excessive sap running from ...

However, if you are having doubts, it’s okay to wait until the buds start to fatten up in late winter or early spring. You’ll ...

Cherry blossom blooms signal an end to a long winter and the start of spring across the U.S. These blooms can begin anywhere ...