When planting a new tree in your backyard or front yard, consider how tall or wide it will grow.

Every neighborhood needs some trees, and every front yard, garden or landscape benefits a tree or two. Trees take in carbon dioxide and provide us with oxygen, cleaning and freshening the air around ...

Like fluffy clouds at dawn, spring-flowering trees delight us with blossoms in billowing masses of sunrise colors. February and March are excellent months to add these and other types of trees to your ...

Chilopsis linearis, the desert willow or desert catalpa, is prized in dry gardens for its showy, fragrant blossoms which cover the tree in summer. When many native bloomers are past their spring glory ...

Just because a plant isn’t very well known doesn’t mean it’s a bad choice. People tend to plant what they know and what they see in nearby yards. And so the same few species get planted over and over ...

Spring is a good time to add a tree to your yard. Growing conditions will be cool for a few more weeks allowing the tree to become accustomed to its new site and make a little root growth before the ...

Are you looking for a small- to medium-sized evergreen landscape tree that is easy to care for, produces fragrant, delicate, white flowers and also makes delicious fruit? Then the loquat is the tree ...

THERE ARE MANY reasons you might want to add a small tree to your landscape. Perhaps you want structure or shade in your parking strip. Common sense and municipal code will dictate that these plants ...

As a former realtor, general contractor and greenhouse operator, Kristi has touched nearly all aspects of homeownership, from the foundation up. Today, Kristi is a full-time investing and real estate ...

We have reached the point in summer when many of the plants in our landscape are at their best. Lots of green growth, bright flowers, and every type of insect and bird can be seen outside in your ...

Here are five of the best plants for Pennsylvania yards that are among the first to look great even as winter is winding down.