If you want to encourage more birds to spend time in your yard, planting flowers and shrubs that support them can help you accomplish that goal. Birds are often drawn to yards where plants provide ...

Add privacy and character to your backyard by growing this gorgeous vine along your fence. Pollinators will also love this ...

COVID has produced a plethora of flowers including azaleas, dogwood and others blooming this spring. There are a couple of spring flowering shrubs that you may rarely find in landscapes. One flower of ...

Removal isn’t the only option for a big, old shrub that’s outgrowing its space or just not blooming well anymore. Many overgrown shrubs can be brought back into size and shape and even induced to ...

The first week of February is all about forsythia and pruning. Forsythia is the bright yellow shrub ready to burst into blooms and you can prune it now to force the flowers into an early show indoors.

Spring is here, which means it's time to get gardening! If you want to add some shrubbery to your yard or garden, here are ...

A few weeks ago, I spoke to a garden club about Roanoke’s community gardens, for which I serve as director of operations. When the sweet lady who introduced me to the group mentioned that I wrote for ...

Or you could factor in the recommendations of the many organizations of growers, horticulturists, researchers, and other plant experts who each year bestow honors on what they believe to be the ...