The most popular element in landscape design is color, but texture is another important building block. Texture in gardening can be seen as well as felt, and is used primarily to provide contrast.

It's completely natural to head out and grab up the most colorful plants you can find, especially this time of year, when garden centers offer a dazzling array of hues after a drab winter. When I ask ...

Years ago, a keen-eyed scientist spotted something unusual - dandelions growing on coarse tailings from the oilsands. Since coarse tailings aren't exactly where you'd expect to see plant life thriving ...

Whenever someone says yellow flowers and winter time in the same sentence, I immediately think of forsythia or mahonia as the two most likely choices (yes, witch hazel has yellow flowers but they are ...

Children always seem to be attracted to cacti. The great variety of shapes and sizes makes them fun to collect. Planting them together like this is a fun way to display them. And the good news is that ...

It was sad to see the removal of a rather mature but unstable Italian stone pine from the neighborhood. Fortunately, the arborist who removed it was careful to avoid damaging the garden below. Yet, ...

The most popular element in landscape design is color, but texture is another important building block. Texture in gardening can be seen as well as felt, and is used primarily to provide contrast.