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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...