Foliage is often employed to obscure views. Evergreen shrubbery or trees can provide privacy in the garden or for windows. It can just as easily hide unappealing buildings in the distance or driveways ...

Over the past few decades, there have been regular declarations in the gardening media that shrubs are making a big comeback. It hasn’t happened yet. Gardens generally are getting smaller — too small ...

It is in moods like this that a garden of flowering shrubs seems wonderfully easy and peaceful. Shrubs grow slowly. They need less care, less adjudication, less ruthless cutting back than perennials.

WEST HARTFORD, CT — Having shrubbery become overgrown is not only unsightly, according to the Town of West Hartford, but when close to the road, it can be dangerous. Town officials recently put out an ...