Flowers on butterfly rose (Rosa chinenisis 'Mutabilis') are pink, peach and yellow.Jerry M. Parsons /Special to the Express-news Pyracantha is among the large shrubs that can fill landscape voids ...

You have to admit that anything green and growing catches your eye at this time of year. Evergreen trees and shrubs stick out easily in the sea of winter’s brown. We consider large evergreen shrubs to ...

Shrubs offer so much to winter gardens. Take mahonia, whose long racemes of bright yellow, pollinator-friendly flowers start ...

Border gardens can add texture and definition to your landscaping, and these shrubs are perfect for colorful, vibrant border ...

There is a group of plants that lets the gardener choose the form they will take in the garden. This group is often described in garden articles and catalogs with the words "can be grown as a large ...

All too often landscape shrubs become overgrown after many years of reflect. As a result they become ugly in form and need major pruning or replacement. This happened with six large privet shrubs at ...

Note: This is the second in a three-part series on native plants that have proven successful on the author’s property along the Lindo Channel in Chico. The previous article discussed large trees; the ...

Colorful flowerbeds add so much beauty to our yards, but they can be a lot of work. A lower maintenance way to provide landscape color is through the use of trees and shrubs that produce attractive ...

Do you have a yard that goes from summer green to boring brown to winter gray? Color it up with shrubs. “The right ones can really light up a yard in autumn, and they don’t take as long to grow up as ...

Question: Last fall, I put in a 5-foot burning bush and some other large shrubs. They are all sparse. They don’t have very many leaves in the center or on the bottom half, especially the burning bush.

Almost everyone wants color in the landscape, and flowerbeds play an important role in that. But it takes a lot of work to keep them looking nice. A lower-maintenance way to provide landscape color is ...