Add quick color and texture to the landscape while building long-lasting structure with these gorgeous bloomers.

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 ...

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, ...

Shrubs are often considered foundational plantings that “anchor” your home to the surrounding landscaping. In addition to providing a transition from human-made structures to natural greenery, shrubs ...

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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 ...

Braving rain, snow, frost and thaw, bulbs and evergreen shrubs, as well as flowering trees, decorate the winter garden with much-needed color!

Avoid pruning certain types of shrubs in February to prevent damage. Pruning shrubs in the winter risks cutting off buds or stressing dormant shrubs.