If you're looking to create a colorful, private oasis to call your own, these are the best bushes that will get the job done ...

When Kathleen Salisbury worked in a garden center, lots of customers asked for plants with four-season interest. Most of them equated that with evergreens. Salisbury, now director of Temple University ...

Flowering shrubs are the hard-working heart of a garden. These cheerful stalwarts can be planted on either side of a front door, or to frame a patio, and they contribute form, texture, and structure ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Flowering shrubs aren't just for adding beauty to your garden. They're wonderful attractors of important ...

As I reentered the garden after my winter's hibernation, I immediately noticed that the neighbors had whacked down their aging camellia. Now I can peer right into their den and see them watching ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. This evergreen shrub ...

For the longest time, tall plants have been relegated to the back of the garden, up against a fence or off to a corner, shunted aside like that 6-foot seventh-grader who was always in the last row for ...