It’s fairly easy to have a beautiful landscape in spring and summer, but you’re really showing your green thumb if come wintertime your landscape stands out on a street of leafless, dull brown sticks.

If the entrance to your home is looking a little lack lustre there's one surefire way to give it a lift. Introduce some appealing colorful shrubs to your front yard landscaping and it will instantly ...

Fall is the perfect time to plant these colorful shrubs. Autumn conjures images of cascading red and gold leaves falling from tree canopies, but shrubs can offer brilliant bursts of color as well. If ...

Winter can feel like nature's way of hitting the snooze button. Frosty mornings, bare trees, and endless shades of gray often dominate the landscape, making gardens feel dreary and uninspired. But ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. An evergreen flowering ...

There are many blooming plants that don't grow well in clay soil, which can limit the growing options for some gardeners. That doesn't mean that there are no alternatives, though. In fact, there are ...

A number of shrubs play a significant role in bringing color to the winter landscape. Nandina is among the best for winter color and overall landscape value. It is available in many forms, from ground ...

There is no reason to lament the lack of color in Southern California gardens at this time of year. Even without flowers, a kaleidoscope of colors is available to us due to a large variety of trees, ...

With daytime highs still in the 80s, you may think of this time of year as late summer. Or, with nighttime lows in the 60s, this may seem more like early fall. Whichever way you look at it, it’s clear ...

Some shrubs are planted mainly for their bright winter bark: vivid streaks of red or yellow that defy gray weather and seem to spark against a background of snow. To keep that bright color, these ...

Colors enrich, beautify and unify our landscapes. When adding color to the landscape, we often rely on flowering bedding plants and perennials. However, they add considerably to the effort spent on ...