Don't let your vacation ruin your garden. These plants for Southern USDA Zones are meant to stand up to drought, heat, pests, ...

If yews have a drawback, it would be that they don’t enjoy wet soil. And unless you start with small plants, yews will set you back a pretty penny.

Hedges are an easy way to create a natural privacy barrier in the garden that doubles as attractive greenery. When the plants are also low-maintenance, it’s a perfect combination.

Seems fairly obvious, but a hedge is just a linear planting of plants meant to define an edge, provide a screen or create a ...

Evergreen shrubs are key components of the landscape, and to look their best, they will occasionally need maintenance pruning. Larger, older overgrown plants call for major pruning. Exact pruning ...

If you are keen to emulate some Japanese garden ideas in your own backyard, the easiest place to start is with some new tree ...

A charming dwarf conifer with heaps of character, this forms a dense, upright cone of close-packed stiff, short, deep green needles. In late spring, the new growth at the tips of the shoots is ...

Necropsies revealed high quantities of yew in the their stomachs, and there was evidence of partially eaten shrubs in nearby yards. The yew plants were later removed from the homeowners' yards.

There is still time to plant deciduous trees and shrubs, though you will find mixed opinions on whether planting this late in November is advisable.

The garden has changed over the years: Two stone lions carefully positioned to stand guard beside a pair of conical yews at the entrance are now tucked inside the shrubs, and the yew hedges beyond ...