Perennial plants are an excellent choice for the home landscape. Once they are established, perennial flowers will produce reliable bursts of color fo...Read More
Trees are an essential part of life on earth. They shade our yards, provide wildlife habitat, filter our water, and clean our air. They also store car...Read More
Groundcovers in your bed or border offer a finished appearance, almost like a carpet growing underneath taller blooms. Choose a complementary color wi...Read More
Japanese pieris (Pieris japonica) is an upright evergreen shrub native to Asia. It is cultivated as an ornamental shrub, beloved for its emerging bron...Read More
Honeysuckle is a controversial plant. While North America has native species, invasive honeysuckles are a real problem. They out-compete native plants...Read More
It’s hard to surpass the beauty of a magnolia tree. With their lavish spring flowers, glossy leaves and red cones of fruit, magnolias are prized as ...Read More
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Even if you aren’t familiar with water birch (Betula occidentalis), you may guess that this tree tolerates wet soil. And this is entirely true. Birc...Read More
Spring blooming trees say loud and clear that the world is waking up after winter. With the showy white, pink, or lilac flowers, they look like dancer...Read More
Trees with white bark are striking and different. While most trees are sheathed in some shade of brown or gray, these beauties range in color from glo...Read More
Wintercreeper control is an important subject in areas where this fast-growing, non-native shrub and vine has taken root. It easily overgrows and shad...Read More
With a common name like the “cannonball tree,” you might expect something out of the ordinary, and you would be right. This tropical deciduous tre...Read More
Asplenium bulbiferum, Mother Fern or Mother Spleenwort, is a fern native to New Zealand that is commonly sold as an indoor houseplant. Of the Spleenwo...Read More
With a tongue-twister of a botanical name like “Chrysophyllum oliviforme,” you can appreciate the urge to confer common names, and this tree has a...Read More
Hellebore is a woodland perennial that is known for its attractive evergreen foliage and early bloom season. Its more common name, Lenten rose, was so...Read More
Experienced gardeners know to wait until after the last spring frost before planting out in the garden. However, no amount of experience can predict r...Read More
While white-flowering shrubs are elegant and serene, pink blooming shrubs are dressed up and ready to party. You can find a plant with pastel pink blo...Read More
Junipers are attractive, tough, and useful trees in a landscape. They serve well as screens, hedges, windbreaks, foundation plants and specimens, with...Read More
At one time growing blue agave was most notable for its production into tequila, but today blue agave nectar is giving the liquor a run for its money....Read More
Judging from its name, the mountain cabbage tree plant (Cordyline indivisa) may not look like one would expect. Rather than resembling a cruciferous v...Read More