Deciduous trees such as oak, popular, and maple add color, texture and height to our landscapes as well as adding color in the fall. Evergreens typically go un-noticed during fall, serving as the back ...

Clove trees, or Syzygium aromaticum, are native to hot, wet and sticky rainforest-like environments. While they tend to grow best in these terrains (cast your mind to tropical islands in Indonesia), ...

Purdue Landscape Report: When I was a kid, if you’d asked me what my favorite season was it would always immediately be summer. No school, time for playing outdoors, swimming, hiking, and late nights ...

The dormant season is a great time to sow flower seeds, establish trees and shrubs, and get started on the vegetable garden.

Avoid wastng your money and time due to planting trees that won’t survive the Santa Clarita clmate. Knowing what deciduous and evergreen tree species are native, thrive in Santa Clarita (USDA ...

Marquez notes that citrus trees grow very slowly and may take up to 10 years from seed to become fruit-bearing. However, growing an orange tree from seed produces a beautiful tree with glossy ...

Severe pruning — a.k.a. “coat racking” — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse. Evergreen trees like the ficus that were heavily pruned outside ...

Although many plants have gone dormant, the winter garden is still an active place. Birds are feasting on last season's seed heads, filling their bellies and dropping seeds all over the ground. These ...