One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. The redbud ...

Q: I have two densiformis yews on each side of my front sidewalk (see reader's photo). They are in beds that were built at the same time, filled with the same soil, were planted at the same time and ...

Many homeowners bring out their loppers and pruning saws in spring for one reason or another. Maybe they’re opening up the canopy to get more sunlight to understory plants or trying to restrain the ...

Q : After I gave blood, the Arkansas Blood Bank gave me a redbud stick. We planted it in April 2022. I am happy with its progress, but was wondering if some strategic pruning might make a more ...

Most leaf drop of deciduous trees and shrubs occurs by mid-December. Some plants will start dropping leaves as early as the second week of November while others drop leaves later. But of course, much ...

A cozy-looking house surrounded by trees and bushes - Artmarie/Getty Images With their tumbling branches boasting a waterfall of leaves, weeping willows are like something out of a storybook. These ...

* What it is: Redbuds are small, Pennsylvania-native flowering trees that grow slightly wider than tall and have heart-shaped leaves that turn yellow in fall. What sets Flame Thrower apart is that it ...

Redbuds in bloom are a most welcome harbinger of spring. Their dense clusters of magenta flowers bloom early, providing splashes of color against a winter landscape of browns and grays. Is the name ...

Planting trees that will grow to 60 feet in height underneath a power line that is only 20 feet off the ground does not make sense to me. But, you see the end result of this mismatch in virtually any ...

Fortunately, we can reduce the likelihood of damage from trees if we inform ourselves on why trees structurally fail.