Painting the garden and landscape with color means more than just pretty flowers. By incorporating a variety of blooms, foliage, textures and patterns, you can create a breathtaking tapestry that will ...

This compact Indian hawthorn produces a beautiful mound of evergreen foliage without the need to prune. Plants exhibit a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. lemon tree in pots, roses growing in a summer themed container and succulents in pots Your patio is like an extra room outside, ...

Ligustrum (aka, privets) is an easy-care evergreen bush that'll fill in your garden quickly. Make sure it has well-drained soil to help it thrive.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A drought tolerant garden with some silver foliage plants - David Madison/Getty Images If you garden anywhere along the West Coast, you're undoubtedly aware that summers can get quite hot and tending ...

I’ve been taking Miguel, my 12-year-old Havanese, for 3,500-step walks around the neighborhood lately (and telling myself he’s the only one who can’t handle longer strolls). And now that the weather ...

This easy-to-grow plant will thrive in a small pot in your home with indirect sunlight, rewarding you with cute, heart-shaped foliage for years to come.

Just a few years ago, the words shade garden plants brought to mind hostas, ferns, impatiens and maybe some astilbe. Shady areas were viewed as a fine place to rest awhile on the garden bench, but not ...

Most gardeners consider color and bloom time as the two most important factors when planning a garden. These are certainly important considerations. However, sometimes it’s the subtler touches that ...

We normally think of foliage as green, but a number of ornamental plants are grown for their colorful foliage. Many of our best and most reliable bedding plants for summer color rely on foliage rather ...