Hold off on cutting back ornamental grasses until early next year. Late winter or early spring is the best time to cut the old growth of deciduous grasses back to the base and remove dead leaves from ...

NO GARDEN IS complete without at least a few deciduous ornamental grasses. These elegant, flowing plants are usually drought-tolerant, generally pest-free and require little care. Impossible to shear ...

Dogwoods trees have good looks, and they also attract wildlife. Add a dogwood tree to your yard for colorful flowers, foliage ...

Althea — Hibiscus syriacus, also known as Rose of Sharon — is a deciduous ornamental shrub that has showy blooms beginning in early summer. Hibiscus syriacus is a species of flowering plant in the ...

Winged burning bush, winged euonymus, or simply burning bush (Euonymus alatus) is a medium-sized deciduous shrub native to China, Japan and Korea but is widely planted in the United States. Winged ...

Skeleton-leaf goldeneye grows on rocky ground from the Rio Grande Valley to the Edwards Plateau, west to the Trans-Pecos. With its skeletal dark green leaves, golden daisies and rounded growth habit, ...

If a plant is healthy and relatively unstressed, the normal seasonal move to cooler weather triggers dormancy.

Scientists have developed a seedless variety of the popular ornamental shrub Euonymus alatus, also called 'burning bush,' that retains the plant's brilliant foliage yet eliminates its ability to ...

Litterbag methods were used to study the decomposition of leaves from an evergreen sclerophyll shrub, Ceanothus megacarpus, and a deciduous shrub, Salvia mellifera, in the chaparral of southern ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Coastal fog affects many California plant species and can be critically important to species that experience periodic drought.