Keep your front yard tidy and welcoming with these low-maintenance, compact, deer-resistant landscaping plants.

As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be considering adding a dogwood tree to your yard. Types of dogwood trees vary from the 6- to 12-inch miniature dogwood “tree” known as bunchberry ...

Dwarf evergreens are perfect for maintaining interest in the garden, even in small spaces ... more than earning their spot in any yard. So, if you’re seeking reliable but compact dwarf ...

so getting smaller oak trees in small yards would be fantastic! The Chapman’s oak, Quercus chapmanii, only grows 6 to 15 feet, is deciduous, and produces attractive fall color. The evergreen ...

Fortunately, we can turn our yards into viable habitats to help ... for worms and other beneficial invertebrates. Small piles of downed trees or limbs can become a home for wildlife.

I would venture to guess that the most popular evergreen tree for Idaho landscapes is the blue spruce (Picea pungens). They ...

In Louisiana, January tends to be a cool (this year frigid), wet (including snow last week) month, providing ideal conditions for planting trees. By April, things are already warming up here, and ...

A cold-hardy banana tree with maroon striped leaves, a snowbell tree that reblooms, and several more ever-higher-performing hydrangeas are among the most interesting new trees and shrubs hitting ...

Nowhere is the action busier than around native Quercus, or oak trees ... yard, and certainly not in your lifetime. Acorns appear after about 20 years. If time isn’t an issue, starting as small ...