The dormant season is a great time to sow flower seeds, establish trees and shrubs, and get started on the vegetable garden.

There is a different type of beauty during the winter. After months of seeing the luscious summer greenery and vibrant fall foliage, the colors fade and snow blankets the landscape in white.

Citrus are conveniently seasonable when not much other fruit is available from home gardens through winter, but they seem ...

The deciduous red or river birch (Betula occidentalis ... Last but not least, the cork oak (Quercus suber) is noteworthy due ...

While National Arbor Day is always in April, many Floridians do not know that Florida’s Arbor Day is the third Friday in ...

Established trees can create a challenging environment for other plants, so opting to grow resilient shrubs underneath them ...

Choose deciduous shade trees — those that drop their leaves during the winter. You will have the shade you need in the summer ...

Planting the wrong combination of trees in the wrong places or configurations diminishes their cooling benefit. For example, in most climate zones, a combination of deciduous and evergreen trees is ...

It is easy to take these trees for granted but they are teeming with biodiversity and are an integral part of Houston's ...

Solid barriers, close-board fences, walls or even tightly clipped evergreen hedges cause turbulence and destructive buffeting and are less effective than trellis, deciduous trees and shrubs or ...