Not every boxwood cultivar will be able to withstand a Nebraska winter, but choosing wisely and picking the right spot in the ...

Native edibles, such as western beaked hazelnuts, California wild grapes and evergreen huckleberries make great garden ...

The Grasses of Autumn. One of my main enjoyments in the months of September - November is the sight of ripening grasses in ...

Bearberries, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, are evergreen ground cover plants growing across much of Canada and the northern United ...

Long gone are the days when everyone ‘put the garden to bed’ in November, and rightly so, for winter can be glorious ...

With shiny green foliage and attractive berries, lingonberries are useful ground cover plants that will thrive in part-shade ...

While hedges and shrubs are great for creating privacy, you might want to consider using evergreens that will hold up ...

Here are nine of the best evergreen hedges and shrubs for privacy in winter. Inkberry (Ilex glabra) is a bird- and butterfly-friendly, deer-resistant shrub to use to landscape your yard for winter ...

Check with your local university coop extension service (find yours here) to learn what plants typically are deer-resistant in your area. But remember that deer are individuals, and they all have ...

An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this time to the emerging threat of drug-resistant superbugs. Half of the ...