This popular, beautiful shrub earns plenty of admirers, but its low-growing branches can also create an open invitation for ...

Pruning your shrubs is perhaps the least exciting part of gardening (though it may still beat weeding). But when it's done at the right time and with the proper technique, it can produce great results ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flowering shrubs aren't just for adding beauty to your garden. They're wonderful attractors of important pollinators, and they can ...

Add riotous color to your yard with these beautiful flowering shrubs for full sun. These shrubs can bloom from early spring ...

Hydrangeas are a Southern garden staple so universally loved that no one dares question even a single cluster of baby-blue blooms, even if they're merely there to flank your trash cans. If you're ...

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 ...

A guide to plants to never prune in July, including spring- and summer-flowering shrubs, trees at risk of disease, and ...

An ornamental shrub cannot serve only one purpose. It needs to not only brighten up a garden through its bloom season but also continue to be an eye-catcher afterwards. It is especially important in ...

The last week of April is the week to let your spring fever run wild with a visit to a park or public garden. My choice this month would be the Rhododendron Species Garden at the Weyerhaeuser campus ...

As gardens begin to stir back into life, bees are emerging too — and early nectar sources matter more than many gardeners realise. While hedges are often chosen for privacy or structure, the right ...

Researchers at the University of Freiburg have found that hedges and perennial flower strips are complementary in supporting wild bees in orchards by providing continuous resources over the growing ...

Researchers have found that hedges and perennial flower strips are complementary in supporting wild bees in orchards by providing continuous resources over the growing season. Researchers at the ...