Deciduous shrubs — those that lose their leaves each winter — are always sending up new stems at or near ground level. This makes them forgiving plants to prune. New growth, wherever needed, can ...

This stunning bush is drought-tolerant and made for poor soil.

Do you know the easiest way to stop a dog from digging in your garden? Take away his shovel. Digging dogs aren’t the only cause of plant problems; winter can be tough on plants, too. And of course, ...

Now that we are officially in the winter season, it’s time for pruning woody plants. Most online and printed sources of pruning advice focus on newly planted trees and shrubs, rather than mature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To ensure your shrubs thrive, read the plant tag or description so you know if it will survive winters in your USDA Hardiness zone ...

We look for the first hints of fall in October, but it's not until late November and early December, that we really begin to see leaves change color and commence to fall. Once it starts, it seems the ...

It's not only full-size trees that put on an amazing fall color display when autumn arrives. Quite a few deciduous shrubs turn red in the fall before they lose their leaves for the winter. If you want ...

Fall foliage color is produced by deciduous trees and shrubs. Up North, the spectacular fall color has long come and gone. Here in the Deep South, fall color is not as prominent, but we do see some.

Most leaf drop of deciduous trees and shrubs occurs by mid-December. Some plants will start dropping leaves as early as the second week of November while others drop leaves later. But of course, much ...

When it comes to deciduous shrubs and trees, fall and winter are the seasons they get serious about root growth. In places like Southern California, where the ground never freezes, roots never stop ...

Quantitative phenology and pre-dawn xylem pressure potentials (XPP) of an evergreen shrub, Ceanothus megacarpus, and a deciduous shrub, Salvia mellifera, were compared on pairs of plants in shared ...