Loropetalum, sometimes known as Chinese fringe flower, is a superb, spring flowering, lightly scented evergreen shrub for milder climates. Reliable, adaptable and impressively drought tolerant, ...

If you're looking to create a colorful, private oasis to call your own, these are the best bushes that will get the job done ...

The next few weeks are the year’s best to prune flowering shrubs that have already finished blooming for the year, as well as most evergreens. Spring-flowering woody plants (ones that bloom in March, ...

You can get a head start on spring pruning by cutting back a handful of shrubs before winter. Find out which shrubs tolerate fall pruning and others to leave until next year.

Two beautiful broadleaf evergreen trees that stay small and thrive in hot, sunny conditions are magnolia grandiflora “Little Gem” and Fremontodendron californicum (flannelbush). Magnolia grandiflora ...

I ripped out my whole overgrown front landscaping and am trying to figure out what to put in. I'm starting with new evergreens. How do you know how many of those to use in relation to flowering shrubs ...

As well as producing flowers at a time of year when any and every fragile bloom is to be treasured, trees and shrubs provide structure to the winter garden. This can come in the form of loose outlines ...

Many shrubs benefit from pruning each year. We prune them to remove stray branches and suckers, keep the plants to a manageable size, and maintain an attractive shape. For some shrubs, pruning also ...

I trimmed my boxwood shrubs at home this past weekend and the whir of my hedge trimmer lulled me into thinking about the plethora of questions I routinely receive from gardeners and homeowners about ...

Just a couple of weeks ago when Santa Claus opened the front door to the North Pole to start on his annual rounds, he unleashed a slug of unconscionably cold air, the likes of which we haven’t seen in ...