The Arbutus tree has so many wonderful attributes; it's no surprise this fruiting evergreen is gaining popularity amongst ...

Pruning is an important task for gardeners and can help to keep plants, flowers and trees nice and healthy - here are three ...

Reflecting on the recent cold days, I decided to write about a cold-hardy shrub that also grows well in Hawaii. Indian ...

Pruning roses ensures that the plants flower well each year and is an especially important task if you have climbing roses.

Vitex or chaste trees produce clouds of stunning purple flowers in summer. Vitex chaste trees are beautiful and virtually carefree summer-blooming shrubby trees that attract a wide variety of ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

Fruit trees need to be grown in the right conditions if they're to flower and fruit to their full potential. Bare-root fruit trees are generally cheaper to buy than potted trees, and the time to buy ...

Just as spring turns to summer, the tree produces a mass of voluptuous panicles. The pink-purple, double, satiny florets sit among pretty heart-shaped leaves, attracting bees and butterflies.

A froth of pink feathery panicles engulfs the foliage for weeks in summer, before this deciduous shrub gives an added fanfare of colour in autumn when its leaves turn into hues of fiery scarlet.