Before you head out to the nursery to purchase a tree for your landscape, there are some important things to consider.

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, ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

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 ...

Flowering shrubs bring color and excitement to a landscaped bed while boosting your home’s overall curb appeal. Dione Lineberry, owner of Blue Ribbon Lady Landscaping, utilizes a variety of shrubs in ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. An evergreen flowering ...

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 ...

Pruning maple trees, birches, and willows in winter is not recommended because they are prone to excessive sap running from ...

Noted for its maple-like leaves, the beautiful yellow flowering maple or Abutilon hybridum is not really a maple at all. This broadleaf evergreen is in the Abutilon genus that includes more than 100 ...

However, if you are having doubts, it’s okay to wait until the buds start to fatten up in late winter or early spring. You’ll ...

Flowering trees are one of the best signs that spring is here, and, fortunately for homeowners in the Phoenix area, our climate allows us to plant a wide range of flowering trees from all over the ...