I made this oak’s acquaintance courtesy of “Plants for the Winter Garden” (Timber Press, 2024), by Warren Leach. The author says of this oak: “It merits a gardener’s lust,” a superlative testimonial ...

You might not have the largest yard or plot, but that doesn’t mean you can’t grow the mighty spruce. These 5 types of spruce ...

The wax leaf Ligustrum is a fast-growing evergreen shrub that typically grows to about 10 feet tall and 6 feet wide if left unpruned. For most of the year the focal point of the shrub is its leaves, ...

Nasty root rot threatens the Fraser fir, a beloved Christmas tree. North Carolina scientists are trying to save the iconic species.

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

Leyland cypress and arborvitae are both popular options to add privacy to your yard, but each tree comes with a unique set of ...

Columnist Ricky Kemery says just cutting down Austrees is not enough to remove them because the trees will regrow back ...

Dream Machine was a long-standing tenant at the Maine Mall. It was a video arcade franchise that had locations across New ...

Somalski advises to start with the idea of what you want from each particular tree or shrub in your landscape. If you want a ...

Young trees make attractive and easy-to-care-for container plants. Flowers/Fruit: Panicle flowers have a creamy-yellow color and can grow up to 4 feet long. Flowers in female plants transform into ...

The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur descendents were the size of dogs at their smallest, but the largest known examples reached nearly 10 feet in height. Now, however, paleontologists have ...

As climate change makes South Texas' summers hotter and winters more likely to bring freezes, homeowners may want to reconsider their landscaping plants.