Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Elegant and regal, magnolia is the queen of trees and one of the oldest flowers on the planet. Hazel Sillver looks at its ...

Like fluffy clouds at dawn, spring-flowering trees delight us with blossoms in billowing masses of sunrise colors. February and March are excellent months to add these and other types of trees to your ...

When shopping for plants at garden centers, it's easy to think everything for sale is safe in your garden but these plants ...

Having a small garden doesn't mean you can't enjoy the beauty that trees offer. There are plenty of compact, fast-growing varieties that will enhance your landscape and provide shade, flowers, fruit, ...

Every neighborhood needs some trees, and every front yard, garden or landscape benefits a tree or two. Trees take in carbon dioxide and provide us with oxygen, cleaning and freshening the air around ...

Chilopsis linearis, the desert willow or desert catalpa, is prized in dry gardens for its showy, fragrant blossoms which cover the tree in summer. When many native bloomers are past their spring glory ...

Spring is a good time to add a tree to your yard. Growing conditions will be cool for a few more weeks allowing the tree to become accustomed to its new site and make a little root growth before the ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

Here are five of the best plants for Pennsylvania yards that are among the first to look great even as winter is winding down.

We have reached the point in summer when many of the plants in our landscape are at their best. Lots of green growth, bright flowers, and every type of insect and bird can be seen outside in your ...