When a shrub that is normally multi-stemmed and rounded/mounding in its growth habit is staked, pruned, and trained into a ...

When the decorations are tucked away and ornaments shelved for another year, many holiday revelers are left with a quickly ...

For a few weeks every year, Christmas trees serve as the centerpiece of Yuletide decor in many homes. Then the ornaments and ...

I am constantly on the lookout for the best plants for a courtyard garden as I have a small courtyard garden myself. It's a ...

Potted Christmas trees consume more resources than cut Christmas trees, and may be difficult to accommodate, or even sustain ...

While bottlebrush trees grown in the ground will become self-sufficient, specimens that are planted in pots will n ...

Keep a garden journal. Consult your journal in the winter, so you can better plan for the growing season. Central/Eastern Oregon: To prevent winter damage from drying, water plants deeply every six to ...

No group of plants exemplifies this better than hollies. With their beautiful green foliage and bright red-to-orange berries, ...

At first glance, sweet box (Sarcococca) may not seem to be a showstopper plant, but easily earns its place in any size of garden, being bombproof, shade loving, evergreen, and compact. However, come ...

When was the first brown dwarf discovered? In 1995, Gliese 229Ba became the first brown dwarf discovered by astronomers, marking the recognition of this new class of stellar bodies. However ...

On Monday morning, residents of the Cardinal Creek subdivision in east Ottawa were surprised to see an evergreen tree stump in a nearby park. This is the scene on Tuesday afternoon. (Nathan Fung ...