These are just a few examples of the functional benefits that trees provide to our everyday life. A community or neighborhood with well-planned and well-managed green infrastructure becomes more ...

Shrubs are more widespread than trees in nature and on Earth. A new study explains their global success. It turns out that the multiple stems of shrubs are of key importance. This feature ...

Best shrubs for under trees. Most yards typically have one, two or several established trees. Or, maybe you have none, but ...

Spirea and weigela: Prune every two to three years in late winter or early spring. Butterfly bush (Buddleia): Cut to within a few inches of the ground every year in early spring. Don’t worry: As ...

Tecoma trees and shrubs produce spectacular blooms nearly all year. Charles Reynolds. ... A full-sun location may be wholly shaded by a spreading oak tree just a few years later, for example.

Losses of trees and shrubs due to deer damage can amount to over $2030/acre per year depending on the species. To reduce damage and lessen economic losses, producers often turn to lethal and ...

Shrubs that bloom on old wood (growth from previous years) should be pruned just after flowering in the spring or early summer to allow time for the shrub to regrow and produce next year’s flowers.

A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Growth, Distribution, and Uses of the Trees and Shrubs of India and Ceylon, with Descriptions of their Wood-Structure. Nature 110 , 276 (1922). https ...

It’s not uncommon for spring-flowering shrubs to bloom out of season, nor is it a sign of impending doom. I mean…it’s not a great thing to see, but it’s not the end of gardening world, either.

As a mild mannered horticulturist and garden writer, I usually do not get too upset about how people garden. I do admit to a certain passionate response when I see people abuse their plants.

Blame the grasses IT WAS the superfoods wot dunnit. Woolly mammoths may have starved to death when changes in the climate deprived them of their best food: flowering herbs. Perhaps ...