Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia) has had a large amount of breeding work in the east in recent years. Varieties in a wide range of colors ranging in size from small shrubs to small trees are now available ...

Looking for a show-stopper among spring flowering shrubs? This is it. Once you see it in bloom, you will find a place for it in the yard. Flowers emerge before the leaves and cover the branches in ...

Flowering cherries, apricots, plums, crabapples, and such lack the fruit of their fruiting counterparts, but are versatile, ornamental trees.

With the early arrival of spring and the abundance of flowering trees, shrubs, and bulbs that seemed to appear all at once, I recently was challenged to identify specific blooming trees according to ...

A gray catbird stands in the grass with wildflowers alongside a dirt path. - Jean Landry/Shutterstock Attracting birds to your yard is not that difficult if you have the basics available — food, water ...

If you’re a keen gardener, then you’re already probably familiar with that strange emotion that some call plantlust. Like a horticultural cupid’s arrow, it can strike without warning, any time, ...

A pattern has emerged that I do not understand. On planting a new plum tree, it takes a couple of years to establish and then flowers and bears fruit for several years, whereupon it stops flowering ...

People asked to record flowering cherry and plum trees near them to see whether patterns are changing The British public have been asked to track flowering fruit trees to help determine whether ...