Deciduous trees such as oak, popular, and maple add color, texture and height to our landscapes as well as adding color in ...

A wall of green can be a barrier between your space and the outside world, can define a space in your landscape.

Hold off on pruning. Winter is a good time to prune a deciduous tree or shrub, but not an evergreen. Because the plant isn’t dormant, pruning in winter can stimulate new growth, prompting soft new ...

I made this oak’s acquaintance courtesy of “Plants for the Winter Garden” (Timber Press, 2024), by Warren Leach. The author ...

In this case, most of the screen composition might be evergreen, but deciduous trees and shrubs can be intermingled to provide interest as well as biodiversity. When choosing deciduous trees and ...

While American holly is native just south of Indiana in portions of Kentucky, there is a deciduous holly known as winterberry (Ilex verticillata) that is native to wetlands scattered throughout ...

The Southern red cedar is a wonderful evergreen tree that provides both berries (if it’s a female tree) and cover for birds ...

Be sure to give additional water to any evergreens planted over the previous two years. I did some planting in my garden this ...

North Carolina’s bald cypress forests, with their distinctive reddish bark and unique “knees,” have long been a defining ...

This week, we were blessed with some rainfall. While the lack of rain has been somewhat of a blessing for those farmers getting their crops out at a record pace, ...