Landscaping: Most Popular Articles

Landscaping Ideas, Pics
Consult these landscaping ideas and pictures for free design help (but pics are NOT royalty-free). These landscaping pictures and ideas will help your home improvement projects in the yard.

Landscape Design
Landscape design ideas for the beginner and do-it-yourselfer. The basic landscape design ideas of color, form, line, scale and texture are introduced with pictures to illustrate how they play out in designing a garden.

Landscape Design Ideas
Need landscape design ideas for your own yard? Study these photos illustrating landscape design ideas and learn about the concepts the pros employ.

Landscaping Pictures
Home landscaping pictures can provide you with numerous ideas for creating your own beautiful yard. These home landscaping pictures give free examples of some of the basic components found in beautiful yards.

Japanese Maples as Fall Fol...
Introduction to Japanese maple trees, including 'Bloodgood,' 'Crimson Queen' and red Japanese maples. Fall foliage described.

Top 10 List of Weeping Trees
Descriptions of Japanese cherry trees and other weeping trees. Weeping cherry trees have a drooping habit and lovely blossoms, making them landscaping standouts.

Brick Patios
How to build a brick patio. These step-by-step instructions, for designing and building a brick patio, are designed for beginners. Using a basket weave design pattern, you can build a brick patio without cutting a single brick. This is an easy do-it-yourself project.

Rose of Sharon
Rose of sharon bush is a deciduous flowering shrub, sometimes thought of as a small tree. Responsive to pruning, rose of sharon bushes can be used to form a summertime hedge to secure privacy for swimming pool areas.

Planting Zones
Definition of planting zones. The USDA puts out a hardiness map to which we refer when discussing whether particular specimens will survive in particular regions -- in other words, their planting zones.

Best in Show for Top 10 Sha...
Top 10 List of shade plants, including flowering dogwood trees. Shade plants are described within each of the major categories.

Building Retaining Walls
Tutorial on building retaining walls out of natural stone, three feet in height or less. Building retaining walls from natural stone without mortar has its limitations but also some benefits.

Seeding Lawns
Using seed for starting new lawns is cheaper than using sod. Learn the steps required for properly seeding lawns.

Full Sun Plants
Full-sun plants with drought-tolerance that are perennials are often perfect for rock gardens, for instance. Learn what qualifies as full-sun plants before you buy your perennials at the nursery.

Getting Rid of Crabgrass
What's the best way of killing crabgrass (also spelled "crab grass")? Using preemergent herbicides is the best way to get rid of crabgrass, but killing the weed begins with proper identification, to which end I provide pictures to help with your weed control.

Laying Sod
Laying sod to start new lawns begins with soil preparation. Laying sod to start new lawns has the advantage over seeding of being quicker.

Hedge Plants
Hedge plants may serve the practical function of affording a property some security, or be purely decorative. Examples of hedge plants are discussed and photos provided.

How to Build Rock Gardens
This tutorial illustrates how to build rock gardens. The look of rock gardens is enhanced if attention is paid to color choices (both for the stones and for the plants).

Plant Lists
These plant lists introduce beginners to the different types of flowers and foliage plants suitable to grow under particular landscape conditions. I.e., whether you're planting in sun or shade, in wet or dry conditions, you need to know which types of flowers will thrive there.

Install French Drains
Installing French drains is one option for providing yard drainage on properties where there is excessive moisture. The wetness from saturated soil on a slope can be re-routed to an area less harmful to the homeowner using French drains as a yard drainage solution.

Landscape Solutions
Problem areas call for landscape solutions, including rock garden design. Rock gardens can be an attractive, practical landscape solution where more common landscaping designs fail.

Flagstone Patios
Laying flagstone patios in sand is not difficult, although the stone itself can be heavy. Laying a flagstone patio is like building a puzzle.

Lilac Bushes
Common lilac bushes bloom in late spring, unlike forsythia flowering shrubs, which bloom earlier in the spring. Plant lilac bushes in conjunction with the latter, to extend the period that your yard experiences the color provided by flowering shrubs.

Planting Flower Beds
Practice layering when planting flower beds. 'Layering' in the context of planting flower beds means you put the tallest items in the back, the shortest in the front row.

Small Water Fountains
A small, cheap water fountain project for do it yourselfers. Fountains and other water features involving artifical ponds greatly enhance outdoor living spaces.

Build an Outdoor Waterfall
To build outdoor waterfalls (see photo), you normally need to exploit an elevated area on your property, or else erect a berm to create such an area. But a simple and cheap way to build outdoor waterfalls is to erect cascading stone spillways that hang right over your pond.

English Boxwoods
English boxwood shrubs are true dwarfs, keeping a rounded, compact form. English boxwoods make excellent hedges and topiaries.

Privacy Fences
The utility of fences is argued in this article. Options for privacy fences are divided into building hardscape fences and 'living walls'; the pros and cons of each are listed.

How to Kill Dandelions
Pictures of dandelions to help you identify them, plus tips on their removal or control. Killing dandelions with herbicides as a removal or control method is best done in fall.

Flower Pictures
Browse this gallery of flower pictures to gain some ideas for your landscape designs. The flower pictures are organized by color.

Lawn Mowers
Consult these lawn mower reviews to help you decide on the machine right for you, before you buy. My lawn mower reviews focus on the practical needs of ordinary homeowners.

Creeping Phlox Plants
Creeping phlox plants (P. subulata) do best in full sun. A slope with well-drained soil, rich in humus, can be covered with creeping phlox plants as a groundcover to prevent erosion.

Dogwood Trees
The top 10 flowering bushes and trees for spring landscaping. Information on flowering trees and bushes to light up your spring landscaping.

'Emerald Green' Arborvitae
'Emerald Green' arborvitae trees (often misspelled 'arbor vitae') are evergreens. 'Emerald Green' arborvitae trees have a foliage similar to Leyland cypress and are sometimes used as privacy screens or in other border plantings.

Drought Tolerant Plants
Pictures of perennial flowers in a drought-tolerant landscape plan consisting of plants suitable for sunny perennial beds. These drought-tolerant perennial flowers also tolerate poor to average soils.

Foundation Bed Photos | Trees and Shrubs in Foundation Beds
In this foundation bed photo, note the use of both evergreen and flowering shrubs. Also note how the use of a tree adds visual interest by giving the foundation bed an added vertical element.

Tips for Growing Green Lawns
Is the grass always greener on the other side, i.e., your neighbor's yard? These tips for growing green lawns will remedy that, putting a green lawn within your reach.

Building Concrete Patios
How to build concrete patios. How to build forms, install drainage for concrete patios, use automatic cement mixers, make use of unwanted garden rock and pour.

The Essential Steps in Deck...
Free guide to do-it-yourselfers in deck construction and design. This introduction to deck design and building focuses on the basic steps.

Foundation Planting Pictures | Negative Space | Foundation Planting Photos
If you have a large foundation bed, don't think that you have to fill the whole shrub bed. As this foundation planting picture illustrates, 'negative space' in a shrub bed can be effective.

Mulching Mowers
Review of cordless lawn mowers put out by Black & Decker. These battery-powered mulching lawn mowers are excellent for leaf removal in fall, too.

Japanese Yews
English yew bushes are widely used for foundation plants or in hedges, while a number of cultivars of Japanese yews exist and also serve as foundation plants or in hedges.

Landscape Design Tips
Index to a list of FAQs providing landscape design tips. These landscape design tips will function as an introduction or 'Landscaping 101' for beginners.

Varieties of Azaleas and Rh...
Description of varieties of azaleas and rhododendrons (sometimes misspelled "rhododendrums"), photos included. Pictures, growth information and requirements for popular varieties of rhododendrons and azaleas.

Landscaping Pictures | Photo Gallery | Landscape Design Ideas
A photo gallery of landscaping pictures for front-yard design ideas. Let these landscaping pictures inspire you in your DIY front-yard design projects.

Hosta Plants
Hosta plants do have flowers but are usually grown for their foliage. The foliage color of hosta plants, as shown in the pictures provided, can be green, gold, or blue, and variegation is common.

Picture of a "Black" Rose
Picture of a black rose. So-called 'black' roses are really just a very deep red color.

Rose Color Meanings
Rose color meanings detailed, so you can 'get it right' for Valentines Day. Attributing meaning to roses by colors, whether as Valentine gifts or for other occasions, follows longstanding convention.

Photo of Blue-Colored and Gold-Colored Shrubbery in Foundation Bed
Vary your colors in a foundation bed to achieve interest. A foundation bed with blue-colored and gold-colored shrubbery is more interesting than an all-green planting.

Garden Arbor Design
Overview, with pictures, for do it yourself building of garden arbors. Tips, supplies and tools to build arbors, and shopping for cheap pressure-treated lumber.

Pictures of Foundation Plantings | Photos of Foundation Plants
Viewing photos of foundation plantings can give you ideas for your own shrubbery selection. The present picture shows a 'clean' look for a planting bed next to a house.

Elephant Ear Plants
Elephant ear plants are tropical but can be overwintered in cold climates in containers. Keep your elephant ear plants in a cool, but not freezing basement or garage.

White Stone Mulch | Foundation Planting With Stone Mulch
Picture of foundation planting with white stone mulch and orange azaleas. White stone mulch can set off foundation plantings effectively, and contrast with house color is a bonus.

Saucer Magnolia Trees
Description of "saucer" magnolia trees. Pictures of saucer magnolia trees furnished.

Identifying Rhus Radicans
Poison ivy pictures provided for poison ivy identification. Pictures help take us beyond the traditional 'leaves of 3' saying for proper identification.

Impatiens Flowers
Impatiens flowers are valued for the variety and vibrancy of their colors and their shade tolerance. The 'Super Elfin' series is one of the more popular groups of impatiens flowers.

Retaining Wall Photo | Picture of Retaining Wall and Foundation Bed
The foundation bed in this photo offers a twist, as it is located behind a retaining wall. Already elevated before any planting is done, foundation beds terraced by retaining walls get a head start in terms of visual interest.

Less Is More in Landscape Design | Shrubbery for Foundation Plantings
Viewing pictures of foundation shrubbery can give you ideas for your own foundation plant selection. This picture of foundation shrubbery illustrates the idea, 'less is more' in landscape design.

Attracting Hummingbirds
The top 10 flowers to attract hummingbirds to your yard. In addition to attracting hummingbirds with plants, these flower gardening ideas are presented with aesthetic considerations in mind.

Forsythia Bushes
Sometimes misspelled as 'forsynthia' or 'forcynthia,' border forsythia bushes are shrubs best known for ushering in spring. Care tips (including pruning) offered for border forsythias (intermedia hybrid).

Stone Walkways
Learn how to build stone walkways, if you need to create a sturdy, attractive path from Point A to Point B. You can build a stone walkway that is either curved or straight.

Lamppost Plantings | Foundation Beds and Lamp Post Plantings
Lamp post plantings can complement foundation beds. By seeming to jut out visually from foundation beds, lamp post plantings give the whole ensemble more depth than the foundation bed, alone, could provide.

Alberta Spruce
Dwarf Alberta spruce trees will eventually reach 6' in height, but only over a long period of time. The green needles have a tight, densely-packed growth habit that gives dwarf Alberta spruce trees a 'fuzzy' look.

Screening Pipes on House Walls With Shrubbery | Screening Pipes With Shrubs
Shrubbery can be used for screening pipes on house walls. Screening pipes, electrical boxes, etc. is often one of the functions of a foundation planting.

Tips for Growing Green Lawns
Growing grass successfully requires attention to watering lawns and removal of lawn thatch (dethatching). Watering lawns and removing lawn thatch are related, since dethatching will ensure water gets to the roots.

Flowering Trees
Index to articles containing information (pictures included) on flowering landscape trees. The standouts of spring, these flowering landscape trees are valuable for more than just their magnificent blooms.

Picture of Symmetrical Foundation Planting | Symmetry in Foundation Beds
This picture shows a symmetrical foundation planting. Using symmetry in a foundation planting is one way to achieve a 'clean' look.

Rose Bushes As Foundation Shrubs | Trellises in Foundation Beds
Rose bushes can be used as foundation shrubs, but if you're going to plant rose bushes as foundation shrubs, why not grow them up a trellis? Added visual interest can be supplied by trellises.

Types of Palm Trees
Beginners are bewildered by all the different types of palm trees available. To help, I offer a handy list of types of palm trees in this introductory article.

Bleeding Hearts
Bleeding hearts are perennial flowers and favorites in shade gardens. Give bleeding hearts liberal doses of water after flowering to extend the life of the plants' attractive but heat-sensitive foliage.

Landscaping for Homeowners | Spring Flowers in Foundation Planting Beds
Spring flowers are a wonderful addition to foundation planting beds. Many homeowners savvy about landscaping will use evergreen shrubs for the 'bones' of their foundation planting beds, but supplement these with spring flowers.

Cat Repellents
I'm often asked how to keep cats away from yards. The answer lies in cat repellents, whether by wire, water, or just plain understanding how feline pests think.

Ground Ivy
Description of creeping charlie (AKA, gill-over-the-ground, ground ivy), formerly valued as a medicinal herb but now considered a lawn weed. Creeping charlie can be used as a wild groundcover, but it is invasive.

FAQ on Mowing Lawns
FAQ providing tips on mowing lawns (grass cutting), plus a basic tip for lawnmower maintenance, which in this case effects turf health. Learn about the best and worst times for mowing lawns (grass cutting).

Christmas Holly Trees
Description of holly plants as landscaping shrubs and trees. The focus is on the growing requirements and uses of American holly tree (ilex opaca), winterberry shrub (ilex verticillata) and 'Little Red.'

Mountain Laurel Shrubs
Description of mountain laurel shrubs, supplemented by pictures. Distinction drawn between these shrubs and the bay laurel trees made famous by the Greeks and Romans.

Foundation Bed Pictures | Photos of Foundation Beds
As my prior foundation bed picture showed, plantings behind retaining walls have inherent an inherent advantage over other foundation beds: the retaining walls inject a vertical element -- before a single plant is installed.

Landscaping With Stone
The myriad of uses for stone to enhance a landscape through hardscape. Explore the aesthetic and functional use of stone and concrete for patios and other hardscape projects.

Foundation Plants Photo | Chimneys and Foundation Plantings
People who have chimneys running up the side of the house wall may be interested in seeing how foundation plants look next to chimneys. This photo shows such foundation plants.

Landscaping Photos | Landscape Design Pictures | Front Yard Ideas | Backyards
Landscape design picture showing an arbor and fencing as a way to transition from front yard to backyard.

FAQ on Fence Designs
FAQ on all aspects of building fences, including design styles, professional installation versus building it yourself, and the attributes of fencing materials (wooden, vinyl and chain-link fencing).

Photo of Groundcover Shrubs | Variety | Screening Electric Boxes
Achieve variety in a foundation bed by varing plant height. Tall and medium shrubs can be supplemented by groundcovers; the tall shrubs can also be used to screen electrical boxes.

Golden Sunshine Spirea Picture
Red mulch sets off 'Golden Sunshine' spirea nicely.

Dry Shade Plants
Plants for dry shade meet a dual challenge: little water and little light. The plants for dry shade discussed in this article will tolerate these difficult conditions.

Pictures of Foundation Plantings on Slopes | Foundation Shrubs
Most of my pictures of foundation plantings illustrate the norm, where the bed exists on a flat plane. But in this picture, I show a foundation planting done on a slope.

Types of Wood Fences
Wood fence designs are often selected to match house styles. Among the types of wood fences are the stockade, post-and-rail and picket styles.

Photo of Shrubs Next to a House | Shrub Photo
Photo of shrubs arranged neatly next to a house. This simple shrub arrangement keeps the planting bed next to the house clean, yet provides interest through the use of varying heights and colors for the shrubbery.

Flower Photos
A picture is worth a thousand words, so browse through these flower photos to plan the color schemes in your yard. Links to the flower photos are prefaced by an introduction to why you should try to achieve color schemes.

Ornamental Grasses
Use these ornamental grass pictures and their accompanying descriptions to learn more about one of the best examples of low-maintenance plants -- the ornamental grasses.

Daffodils Picture | Yellow Flowers | Photo of Daffodils
As this photo of daffodils and forsythias shows, yellow flowers can really light up a foundation bed in spring. Yellow flowers such as daffodils and forsythias can bring cheer even to a rainy April day!

Types of Maple Trees for Fa...
Introduction, with pictures, to maple trees as fall foliage specimens. Red maples' fall foliage described, as well as sugar maples, Norways and Amurs.

Photo Showing Plants Picking Up House Colors
Photo showing plants picking up house colors.

Blue Rug Juniper Plants
Blue Rug juniper plants and their relatives are sturdy groundcovers for sunny slopes. This article contains information on the use of Blue Rug juniper plants as groundcovers.

Identifying Rhus Radicans
Tips on how to get rid of poison ivy. Ortho Brush-B-Gon is an effective herbicide, but you can also get rid of poison ivy plants using organic methods, killing them by pulling them up.

Tree Stump Removal
Alternatives to using grinders for tree stump removal explored. Tree stump removal can be accomplished manually with mattocks or by applying nitrogen and waiting.

Patio and Deck Design
Patio and deck design requires patio and deck accessories to make these outdoor living spaces joyful and attractive. Here's a place to explore ideas for accessories to enliven your design.

Photo of Burning Bush Hedge
Photo of burning bush hedge.

Planting Hedges
This step-by-step tutorial walks you through the steps in planting hedges. Through pictures I show you how to plant boxwood hedges.

Automatic Irrigation Systems
Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about lawn irrigation systems and how efficient they are at water conservation. Water conservation requires foresight, which very much includes the planning for how lawn irrigation systems will be installed.

Landscape Plans
You say that you’d like to learn how to draw landscape plans? This article aimed at do-it-yourselfers shows you how to draw landscape plans, and explains their usefulness.

Picture of Window Box With Purple and orange Flowers
Picture of window box with purple and orange flowers.

Apple Trees
Factors that go into selecting varieties of apple trees to grow. In selecting varieties of apple trees, you'll have to consider dwarfs versus standards, climate zone, taste, disease resistance and more.

Hens and Chickens
Hens and chicks plants (Latin name, Sempervivum tectorum) are surprisingly hardy perennials, for succulents. Plant hens and chickens (see picture) in rock gardens to take advantage of their drought-tolerance.

Lamb's Ear Plants
Lamb's ears (Stachys byzantina) are drought-tolerant and deer-resistant. These features make lamb's ear plants excellent choices for low-maintenance rock garden plants.

Example of Cool Color | Picture of Purple Iris
Purple is an example of a cool color.

Peony Plants
The Chinese peony plants (see picture) most common in the U.S. are herbaceous perennials. But peony plants also come in a woody "tree" form, which is really more of a shrub.

Reel Lawn Mowers
Consumer product review of reel lawn mowers, as an alternative to rotary machines. Reel lawn mowers are quiet, safe, pollution-free, maintenance-free and cheap.

Example of Rock Garden Plant Selection
Example of rock garden plant selection.

Photo of Mixed Mulch Colors
Photo showing the use of mixed mulch colors.

Picture of Flowering Quince Shrubs
Picture of flowering quince shrubs.

Fertilizing Lawns
Tips are provided in this resource for fertilizing lawns. A schedule is provided for fertilizing lawns in spring, summer and fall.

Disguising Ugly Walls
The bright colors of the plants channel the focus away from the ugly wall, disguising it.

Xeriscaping Plants
The threat of drought begs for cheaper, drought-resistant alternatives to lawns, such as the xeriscaping plants used in xeriscape landscaping. Xeriscaping plants are an alternative to the thirsty grass of lawns.

Picture of Yellow and Purple Flowers Together
Yellow and purple flowers juxtaposed make for a nice contrast.

Spring Lawn Care
If you neglect spring lawn care, you'll pay for it the rest of the year. But while you shouldn't neglect it, spring lawn care doesn't require nearly as much time as mowing does in summer.

Cornus Florida, Kousa
Information and pictures for dogwood trees (Cornus florida, Cornus kousa). In addition to spring blooms, the Japanese dogwoods and others offer fine fall foliage.

Building Dry Creek Beds
Building dry creek beds for landscape drainage is an easy landscaping project, provided that the soil you'll be excavating isn't strewn with roots and rocks. Once the digging is done, you'll build a dry creek bed laying weed-suppressing fabric and covering it with river rock, mortared in place.

Privet Hedges
Privet hedges (ligustrum shrubs) are traditional favorites, being amenable to pruning. But ligustrum shrubs are invasive plants in North America, meaning privet hedges may soon belong to a bygone era.

Picture of Creeping Jenny
Picture of a golden creeping Jenny, spilling over a blue ceramic container. Both the color of the golden creeping Jenny and that of the blue ceramic container fit my color scheme.

Example of Window Box With Warm Colors
This window box is planted with warm colors.

Butterfly Bushes
The scientific name for butterfly bushes is Buddleia davidii. As the plant name suggests, butterfly bushes (Buddleia davidii) can attract swallowtails, etc., but these perennials are also good for attracting hummingbirds.

Kwanzan Cherry Tree Picture | Photo of Kwanzan Cherry
Picture of Kwanzan cherry tree.

Building Garden Fountains
This do-it-yourselfer's tutorial on building decorative water garden fountains centers around the use of high-quality ceramic planters that function as the decorative water garden fountains. Such ceramic planters can be expensive but make great visual impact.

Fall Foliage With Birch Trees
Description of 4 types of birch trees effective as fall foliage trees. The fall foliage of birch trees is yellow.

Sargent Crab Apple Tree Picture | Sargent Crabapples
In this Sargent crab apple tree picture, I show a Sargent crab apple tree with its magnificent pink blossoms.

Red Canna Plants Draw Attention
Use red to draw attention to a landscape area.

Swimming Pool Landscaping
Ideas for landscaping around swimming pools. Landscaping around swimming pools has a set of design principles unique to it.

Landscaping With Dogs
Landscaping with dogs requires serious compromises. Strategies for landscaping with dogs may force you to alter plans that you would otherwise have for your yard, for instance, avoiding extensive lawns that will only be stained by their urine.

Wisteria Plants
Information on Chinese wisteria plants (sometimes spelled, 'wistaria'), including a comparison with other varieties (picture provided). Chinese wisteria plants are beautiful but slow to flower and invasive.

Colorado Blue Spruce Trees
Colorado blue spruce trees are deer-resistant and often used as specimens or windbreaks. A classic choice for Christmas, Colorado blue spruce trees can also be impressive landscaping components.

Build Wood Lattice Screens
How to screen unsightly objects in the yard, such as HVAC units, using lattice screens. Both vinyl and wood lattice are available at home improvement stores.

Picture of Mandevilla Vines
Picture of a mandevilla vines. In northerly climes, plant mandevilla vines in container.

Landscape Plan for Shady Areas
To plant successfully in shady areas, gain ideas from this sample landscape plan. Following the picture of a landscape plan supplied here, you can make your plant selection fit the conditions, not vice versa.

Moss Plants
Profile of moss plants and their use in shade gardens. Moss plants can be grown to comprise shade gardens as an alternative to traditional lawns in shady spots, although information is also provided for getting rid of mosses.

Canadian Hemlock Trees
Eastern or 'Canadian' hemlock trees are long-lived evergreens. Many cultivars of Canadian hemlock trees have been developed for landscape usage.

Fall Foliage Photos | Orange Sugar Maple Trees | Photos
Fall foliage photos, including images of orange sugar maple trees. My fall foliage photos show some of New England's favorite specimens, among which are the orange sugar maple trees.

What Does Poison Ivy Look Like
What does poison ivy look like? Photos do the best job of answering the question of what poison ivy looks like, thus this photo gallery.

Drought-Resistant Landscape Plan
Drawing of a drought-resistant landscape plan consisting of plants suitable for a sunny area. These drought-resistant plants also tolerate poor to average soils.

Driveway Materials
This series of frequently asked questions considers the available driveway materials for new installations, as well as sealing, repairing and landscaping existing driveways. The most popular driveway materials are concrete, asphalt and pavers.

Colorful Shrubs
A Top Ten Shrub Bush & Vine List for fall colors from your About Landscaping guide. These shrubs, bushes and vines display great fall colors, and can set the autumn landscape ablaze with their colorful leaves.

Small Garden Tillers
Review of small garden tillers (also called "cultivators"). Typical small garden tillers have a 2-horsepower engine and are designed to be light-weight rototillers, making them easy to handle.

Weeping Crab Apple Tree Picture | Weeping Crab Apple Trees
Weeping crab apple tree picture.

Liriope Grass
Liriope spicata, also called 'lilyturf' or 'border grass,' is a deer-resistant ornamental grass. Liriope can, indeed, be used as a 'border grass' in areas of dry shade.

Groundhog Day - Garden Pests
Pest control strategies against groundhog or woodchuck pests in gardens. Woodchucks or "groundhogs" (also spelled "ground hogs") are pests that emerge from a burrow to eat garden vegetables and can be controlled through trapping.

Weeping Higan | Picture of Weeping Higan Cherry Tree
Picture of weeping Higan cherry tree.

English Lavender Plants
Profile of English lavender plants (Lavandula angustifolia). English lavender plants (sometimes misspelled "lavendar") are commonly spoken of as perennial herbs and have aromatic flowers.

Landscape Trees
What are the best types of landscape trees for your yard, especially for autumn? In this piece I help you choose landscape trees to liven up your yard in autumn and all seasons.

Stella de Oro Daylily
Although individual Stella de Oro daylily flowers last only one day, the plant does an excellent job of reblooming. Hence the popularity of Stella de Oro daylily when seeking summer-long color.

Foxglove Plants
Foxglove flowers (Digitalis purpurea) will thrive in shade and tolerate dry soil, although they prefer moderate moisture. Foxglove plants are poisonous, although they are also used medicinally.

Yellow Alyssum Flowers
Yellow alyssum flowers (Aurinia saxatilis) are perennial plants suitable for rock gardens. Yellow alyssum flowers like sun and tolerate drought.

Apple Trees Blooming | Picture of Apple Trees in Bloom
Picture of apple trees in bloom. Apple trees provide more than fruit -- they are fine flowering specimens for spring.