American arborvitae ( Thuja occidentalis) is a low-maintenance, fast-growing evergreen tree that offers a tall privacy hedge.

If you're looking to enhance your lanscaping this spring and summer, consider flowering shrubs, with these gardening tips.

To attract these little garden visitors, flowering plants should definitely be on your radar. To that end, there's a rather ...

Flowering shrubs that bloom in summer or early fall (i.e. butterfly bush, caryopteris, rose-of-sharon, panicle hydrangeas, ...

Crepe myrtles are one of those dependable plants that seem to flower for many months in spring and summer. But, once the ...

While it may sound like the faithful following of the band The Grateful Dead, deadheading is an important part of gardening.

Here are some things I learned that helped me make it through the experience. Buying and selling a house or apartment can be ...

Emma Fell, head of horticulture at Hillier, recommends Photinia fraseri “Red Robin” for our list of fast-growing shrubs.

Gardens can wither away in a Southern summer, which is why we need reliable flowering shrubs. These easy summer-blooming ...

Blooming shrubs add color and texture to the landscape, but some of them are more trouble than they're worth. Avoid growing ...

Make plans now to prune spring-flowering shrubs, such as forsythia, lilac, viburnum and flowering quince, after they finish blooming. “We don’t prune these shrubs in winter because we’d be ...

Credit: Jacky Hobbs/Future Pruning shrubs and perennials in May can reward you with neater plants and tremendous future flowering displays. There is a lot to do in the garden this month, but do not ...