Shrubs and trees can beautify your yard. They also can create tall borders that lend privacy to your outdoors space or simply obscure eyesores. If you're planting a natural privacy screen with trees ...

Jane Austen may have seen the country hedgerow, quaintly immortalized in the landscapes of Constable and Turner, as blight better replaced with something fussier and more civilized. But in California, ...

Looking for a winter garden task? Pruning plants, shrubs, and trees can help improve growth and health. Here are some you ...

Outside my window, Hurricane Irene is lashing my landscape with gusty winds and intermittent downpours. Although downgraded to a tropical storm this morning, I watch anxiously as the wind whips the ...

It can be difficult to find a plant that looks good in the garden year-round — especially one that looks festive in December and produces sweet-smelling flowers in the spring. There is, in fact, a ...

Three years ago, this was nothing but a rough hedgerow along the upper side of the field, never thought of as anything, or capable of becoming anything; and now it is converted into a walk, and it ...