You have to admit that anything green and growing catches your eye at this time of year. Evergreen trees and shrubs stick out easily in the sea of winter’s brown. We consider large evergreen shrubs to ...

Evergreens should form the backbone of your front yard planting scheme, providing a focal point with one distinctive style on show or alternatively providing a framework against which other plants can ...

There is a group of plants that lets the gardener choose the form they will take in the garden. This group is often described in garden articles and catalogs with the words "can be grown as a large ...

Is it safe to prune unruly shrubs in fall? Follow these tips for when and how you can prune to keep shrubs in top shape and ...

The tree question-and-answer session last Sunday was delightful, and the questions were excellent. I'll answer some of them here while's it's not too hot to plant trees and large shrubs. Next week, ...

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 ...

After a tall tree in my garden developed a split, I had it removed last May (with city approval), revealing a large overgrown shrub. This shrub, a western spicebush (Calycanthus occidentalis), has ...

Some of our favorite shrubs are oversize, meaning that when they mature they’re really too large to fit in most landscapes. I like to call them “big old-fashioned lawn shrubs”. Examples include many ...

All too often landscape shrubs become overgrown after many years of reflect. As a result they become ugly in form and need major pruning or replacement. This happened with six large privet shrubs at ...

Flowers on butterfly rose (Rosa chinenisis 'Mutabilis') are pink, peach and yellow.Jerry M. Parsons /Special to the Express-news Pyracantha is among the large shrubs that can fill landscape voids ...

Actually, there aren’t any shrubs that really require trimming. They get by without it in the wild, after all. As Alan Titchmarsh notes in “How to Garden: Flowering Shrubs,” “Many gardeners struggle ...