As the snow falls, trees and shrubs in your landscape can suffer. Here are some tips to help prevent damage to your plants.

Pruning maple trees, birches, and willows in winter is not recommended because they are prone to excessive sap running from ...

Winter gardens often get a bad rap. Snow, frost, and bare branches usually scream “dormant” rather than “dramatic.” But for some shrubs, winter is their time to shine. While most plants retreat into ...

In my work as a professional gardener, flowering shrubs are a mainstay of landscaping design. They can provide not only beauty but privacy, shade, and wildlife habitat, and many of them also attract ...

Midwinter is a good time to prune deciduous shrubs because it’s easy to see the structure and judge which branches to remove.

It used to be that everything came in “supersize” — from extra-large boxes of cereal to cars the size of whales to homes on half-acre lots, and more. Today, of course, it seems like everything is ...

The Japanese barberry shrub is known as an invasive plant throughout the United States. Some states have banned it and ...

Order trees from Winnebago County’s annual sale by Feb. 25. Choose evergreens, shade trees, shrubs, and specialty packs.

This is something I only noticed when I picked this picture for the article and had time to look at it carefully as I wrote ...

A practical guide to creating an allergy-friendly garden with low-pollen trees, shrubs, and flowers suitable for Indian climates and balconies.