Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before you buy, read the label or plant description to make sure a shrub will survive winters in your USDA Hardiness zone (find ...

Traditionally, weigela is known as a dense shrub with pink flowers that blooms in spring. The flowers may reappear in summer. New cultivars are available that produce more blooms in many different ...

When most plants are dormant, these shrubs put on a show! Here's how to differentiate between flowering quince and camellia.

Strolling outside these days feels like wandering through a Monet painting, with trees leafing out in bright green and spring blooms in full display. My neighbor's white azalea is flourishing, the ...

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 ...

When I talk about landscapes creating a show, I am usually referring to blooming plants. After all, the flowers are what we all want to see. If the shrubs in your landscape are creating a show, how ...

"Oooooh, what's that?" is a common refrain when early blooming trees and shrubs began to splash their color through the monotone of late winter. Is our curiosity heightened as a result of seasonal ...

The backbone for a landscape is the trees and shrubs that form it. When choosing shrubs for a landscape think seasonality. We want to have something blooming in every season — not just a show of color ...

During the past several weeks we have enjoyed the colorful show created by all the spring flowering shrubs. Everyone enjoys these spring blooms because they truly lift our spirits, delivering spring ...

August can feel like a long time to wait for a some plants to finally put forth flowers, all while the rest of the garden might be blooming its head off. On the other hand, by the time we get to ...