Key Points Cut back warm-season ornamental grasses in fall for a cleaner winter look.Tie tall grasses into bundles before ...

Perennial grasses make excellent additions to any landscape, whether you’re looking to enhance your lawn, add texture to your gardens, or create a living privacy screen. However, not all perennial ...

We all recognize the tree chosen by Charlie Brown in the popular holiday cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Charlie’s evergreen had a short, crooked form, with wimpy branches and needles that easily ...

Leaves – Evergreen needles; ½ -1” in length, flat, and attached directly to the twig via a small peg. Needles are dark green above, with prominent glaucous white stomatal bands beneath. Twigs and Buds ...

One of the most interesting evergreens is the weeping blue spruce (Picea pungens 'Pendula'). This cultivar of the native Colorado blue spruce was a selected seedling grown in a tree nursery in the ...

There’s nothing wrong with potted mums. Really, there isn’t. But when it comes to crafting an eye-catching entryway for autumn, the seasonal standby doesn’t factor into the equation. To figure out how ...

Q. I have a couple of blue spruce trees. Someone told me to trim the bottom two layers of branches that are touching the ground. Is this a common practice/procedure and/or is there any benefit to the ...

Recently, one of my blogging friends, Loree Bohl of Portland, Oregon, caught me by surprise with a challenge to all gardeners to create an interesting display using ornamental cabbage or kale. Vocal ...

The Ips typographus, or larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle, is an invasive species Planting of new spruce trees is being banned in parts of East Anglia and South East England as part of ...

The millennia-old Malayalam's attempts to spice up its font family will get a helping hand from the US. "Malayalam has an acute dearth of ornamental computer fonts, which has put constraints on the ...

A Colorado Blue Spruce tree. Colorado Blue Spruce tree seedlings. NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. – "Spruce" up your yard. During the month of August, anyone who joins the Arbor Day Foundation with a $10 donation ...