To add beauty or privacy, put your garden on the fast track with these fast-growing bushes that add two feet or more every ...

Trying to deter deer from eating your garden? Most plants aren't 100% deer-proof, but here are annuals, perennials, and vines ...

With evergreen foliage and a long bloom time, this compact agapanthus adds year-round beauty to gardens and containers.

The Southern Living Garden Book (Oxmoor House, 2004 edition) has an extensive list of what they call “Southern heritage ...

Come winter most gardens are a little past their prime, looking brown, wilted, and maybe a little sad. That doesn't have to be the case, though. Gardeners who plan ahead and plant evergreens can have ...

After a summer of growth, you may be ready to bring out those loppers and that new handheld tiny chainsaw pruner this fall and give your shrubs a haircut. But if you want healthy shrubs and some ...

Grandma and Grandpa didn’t used to grow such now-common plants as nandina, cherry laurel, Leyland cypress, and crape myrtle in their central-Pennsylvania landscapes. It was just too cold here for them ...

October is a great month to plant new shrubs in your home landscape. We’re passed the harsh summer heat, and the cooler fall weather is perfect for newly planted shrubs to produce new root growth. In ...

There are some plants that make you smile the moment you see them, and Polka Dot Plants are at the top of that list for me. The name sounds like simply a description, but that is the actual name of ...