Loropetalum, sometimes known as Chinese fringe flower, is a superb, spring flowering, lightly scented evergreen shrub for milder climates. Reliable, adaptable and impressively drought tolerant, ...

With flowering trees, you get the height and size of a tree, plus pretty blooms. Check out the best types of flowering trees.

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. An evergreen flowering ...

These shrubs flower in the spring on buds that formed the previous year. Prune them in the winter, and you'll be removing ...

I ripped out my whole overgrown front landscaping and am trying to figure out what to put in. I'm starting with new evergreens. How do you know how many of those to use in relation to flowering shrubs ...

Q: I want to replace my storm-damaged tree with a single-trunk, evergreen flowering bush that would stand about 8 feet tall. - D.F., Houston A: The Mexican orchid tree, Bauhinia Mexicana, flowers ...

The next few weeks are the year’s best to prune flowering shrubs that have already finished blooming for the year, as well as most evergreens. Spring-flowering woody plants (ones that bloom in March, ...

Many shrubs benefit from pruning each year. We prune them to remove stray branches and suckers, keep the plants to a manageable size, and maintain an attractive shape. For some shrubs, pruning also ...

Actually, there aren’t any shrubs that really require trimming. They get by without it in the wild, after all. As Alan Titchmarsh notes in “How to Garden: Flowering Shrubs,” “Many gardeners struggle ...

As well as producing flowers at a time of year when any and every fragile bloom is to be treasured, trees and shrubs provide structure to the winter garden. This can come in the form of loose outlines ...

Two beautiful broadleaf evergreen trees that stay small and thrive in hot, sunny conditions are magnolia grandiflora “Little Gem” and Fremontodendron californicum (flannelbush). Magnolia grandiflora ...