Flowering shrubs add beautiful interest to your landscape. They provide color, attract pollinators, and can even create privacy when planted close together and grown as hedges. Many flowering shrubs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea in front yard in Woodstock Vermont If the entrance to your home is looking a little lack lustre there ...

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 ...

As planting season approaches, gardeners everywhere are contemplating ways to improve their landscapes. Spirea is a remarkably versatile, low-maintenance shrub prized for its graceful, arching or ...

There are many blooming plants that don't grow well in clay soil, which can limit the growing options for some gardeners. That doesn't mean that there are no alternatives, though. In fact, there are ...

There is no reason to lament the lack of color in Southern California gardens at this time of year. Even without flowers, a kaleidoscope of colors is available to us due to a large variety of trees, ...

With daytime highs still in the 80s, you may think of this time of year as late summer. Or, with nighttime lows in the 60s, this may seem more like early fall. Whichever way you look at it, it’s clear ...

Colors enrich, beautify and unify our landscapes. When adding color to the landscape, we often rely on flowering bedding plants and perennials. However, they add considerably to the effort spent on ...

Some shrubs are planted mainly for their bright winter bark: vivid streaks of red or yellow that defy gray weather and seem to spark against a background of snow. To keep that bright color, these ...

The plants can be prolific vining plants or more compact, bushy ones. They all thrive in full sun and bloom until a killing frost. BOUGAINVILLEA Bougainvillea is often sold in hanging baskets and ...