Hostas are perennials that provide significant foliage interest in your flower garden or landscape. Miss America consists of heart-shaped green leaves with white centers and light green streaking.The ...

Water passes through sandy soil like a sieve—any plants growing in sandy soil must be drought-tolerant, because water passes ...

On a recent day when the temperature actually went a few degrees above freezing, I went outside just to look around. At one point I ended up by a flower bed in which I planted hellebores many years ...

The legendary tall hedge is often in short supply. We survey the broader Thuja landscape, searching for other ...

An endangered bat species has been detected in southeastern Arizona. Researchers say the discovery of the Mexican long-nosed ...

Garden beds, borders, containers, and sunny areas where tall plants are desired Hardiness Zones: 6-10 3. Caladium (Caladium x ...

When you’re shopping for trees, shrubs or perennials, the hardiness zone should be one of the first things you check.

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...

New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the ...

Keep your front yard tidy and welcoming with these low-maintenance, compact, deer-resistant landscaping plants.

Dear Neil: I’m seeing the landscape guys putting mounds of mulch around tree trunks in town. Is that really a good idea? It seems like it would cause decay in the wood of the trunks.