Fall is the perfect time to plant hedging, trees and shrubs. Despite shorter and cooler days, the soil remains warm and ...
In the spring, bees gather around the shrub's pale pink flowers, and in the fall, overwintering birds scarf up its scarlet ...
Planting plenty of berrying plants is a good way to support birds. They relish berries, stripping many by the new year – ...
Red berries punctuate its green foliage. All parts of the yew plant are toxic. A soft-needled, slow-growing evergreen conifer, the yew is usually counted among low-maintenance shrubs for shaded ...
This week's Plant Pick of the Week is a native shrub that turns wine-red and ripens blue-black berries in early fall.
Leave the bean pods on this shrub and they turn a startling shade of blue just in time for Halloween, hanging eerily from the ...
All plants in our area have an assigned hardiness ... Prickly pyracanthas have vibrant yellow, orange and red berries, and they can be trained on a trellis or fence for a spectacular effect ...
What better reason to explore the woods during the Halloween season than in search of poisonous, scary-looking doll’s eyes?
Plant lovers will enjoy the aptly named Christmas cactus, with its flat green stems which erupt with red and pink flowers as ...
Each season sees us bringing different plants into our lives. Some seasonal plants popular now can be harmful to our pets.
The evergreen huckleberry and its cousins are survivors. They’ll grow in deep forest and bright sun. The best areas to look ...
Even though the berries of this sumac relative ... and branches are a rich purplish-red color. While herbaceous, pokeweed resembles a loosely branched shrub and in prime condition, a plant is ...