You’re missing out if you don’t have shrubs around your home. Shrubs can add color, fragrance, and even protection from ...

When looking for reliable, general landscaping shrubs, start by considering the needs of your space. Look at the exposure to sun, areas of shade, existing trees and shrubs and available water sources.

Privacy fences can help keep prying eyes out of your backyard, but they can look drab and dull -- especially several years after installation. If you're tired of ...

The concept of sustainability — using resources efficiently and protecting the natural world — is essential to effective landscape design. Creating outdoor spaces that serve human beings and also ...

When shopping for plants at garden centers, it's easy to think everything for sale is safe in your garden but these plants ...

If you’re thinking about re-landscaping the yard, you might want to consider some ideas from the 15th Annual Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour. This self-driving tour, which rolls through ...

This is the latest in a series we call Plant PPL, where we interview people of color in the plant world. If you have any suggestions for PPL to include in our series, tag us on Instagram ...

Bob Perry is Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), where he has been teaching since 1972 with a focus on water conservation ...

An overgrown shrub can become a safety hazard or eyesore and must be removed. Learn how to remove overgrown shrubs without tearing up your yard or damaging structures.