How to Plant and Grow Japanese Skimmia
This guide explains what you need to know about planting, growing, and landscaping with Japanese skimmia, a low maintenance, evergreen shrub for shade.
Trees, Shrubs & Vines
How to Plant and Grow Japanese Stewartia
Japanese stewartia is a multiseason-interest plant that makes an excellent specimen tree for a front yard or a focal point near a patio or outdoor room.
How to Plant and Grow Climbing Hydrangea
Learn how to grow climbing hydrangeas, a vine with aerial roots that attach to walls and fences, and even grow up the side of a large tree.
How to Plant and Grow Black-Eyed Susan Vine
An old-fashioned favorite, black-eyed Susan vine is beloved for its cheerful yellow blossoms that unfurl with abandon from midsummer until the first frost.
Hydrangea
Hydrangeas can flourish in sun or shade, blooming from summer into fall. Varieties differ in size, flower shape, and color, but all are beautiful.
How to Plant and Grow Myrtle
Myrtle is a versatile evergreen shrub from the Mediterranean and Middle East that has long been a symbol of love.
How to Plant and Grow Potentilla
Find essential tips for growing hardy potentilla, a compact native shrub with a long bloom and anemone-like flowers.
How to Plant and Grow Pyracantha
Find key tips for growing pyracantha, a tough shrub. Its pretty berries attract birds but it is potentially invasive.
How to Plant and Grow Serviceberry
Discover essential tips for growing serviceberry, a flowering tree with edible berries that is one of spring's first sources of nectar.
The 12 Showiest Lacecap and Mophead Hydrangeas for Your Garden
Hydrangea blooms are either mophead or lacecap, ranging from soft white to dramatic blue. Use our guide to find the best choices for your garden.
19 Small Trees for Front Yards That Explode with Color
Small trees can still pack a big punch in your landscape. Whether you've got a modest-size yard or are just filling in larger spaces, these varieties will fit in perfectly.
How to Plant and Grow Hackberry
Learn all about hackberry, a native tree that is one of the toughest and most adaptable deciduous trees you can grow.
6 Little-Known Camellia Facts Explain Why This Shrub Is So Popular
Learn all about camellia, a popular flowering shrub. We explain why camellia is so popular, especially in the South, plus when camellias bloom and more.
10 Flowering Trees and Shrubs for Spring Landscaping
Add whimsical beauty to your landscape when spring arrives with these flowering trees and shrubs. Your yard will boast color and charm!
Which Trees Produce Spiky Round Balls? Here’s How to Identify Them
Only a few types of trees have spherical, prickly seed pods, and each of these spiky trees has distinctive features. Here's how to tell them apart.
3 Tricks for Hydrangeas to Get the Most Out of These Flowers
In the garden or in cut arrangements, hydrangea shrubs impress. Here's how to change bloom colors, dry them, and keep them fresh in a vase for weeks.
How to Plant and Grow Black Locust
Fast-growing black locust is prized for its sweet pea-like spring blooms, but the adaptive tree can become aggressive.
How to Plant and Grow Hops
Hops is a robust, easy-to-grow perennial vine that is an essential ingredient of beer and in the right location is an attractive ornamental.
How to Plant and Grow Spirea
Learn to grow spirea, an easy-to-grow diverse group of flowering shrubs, hardy almost everywhere, that comes in a range of sizes, colors, and forms.
How to Plant and Grow Sycamore
Find key tips for growing sycamore, a large native tree with attractive peeling bark and high wildlife value.