What makes a landscape high maintenance? The saying “right plant, right place” is the grown-up version of the matching game. Does the plant match the site’s light, soil, water and space requirements?

A lot of awful, boring plants are grossly overused throughout the Piedmont landscape. Ligustrum, juniper, mahonia and euonymous come readily to mind. These plants are the most common of the common, ...

A: The unique foliage and bright yellow flowers in early spring certainly make this a distinctive plant. Spikes of blue berries follow the flowers. Some gardeners don't like mahonia because of its ...

As an apprentice, I had much the same feelings about the many varieties of Mahonia as I experience when, trapped on the Tube, I glance at a neighbour's celebrity magazine: I don't know any of these ...

Mahonias are impressive winter-flowering shrubs which make an imposing feature in a border. There is something quite uncompromising about their yellow flowers whose scent is reminiscent of lily-of-the ...

The shiny, shapely leaves of this beautiful shrub will add texture to your Southern garden. Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann The eye-catching, easy-to-grow mahonia shrubs (Mahonia spp. or Berberis spp ...