When you need a boxwood alternative in your landscape, these evergreen plants ... dense hedge. Northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) is a mid-sized, semi-evergreen native shrub. It has beautiful ...

Although many hedge plants are evergreen, several deciduous shrubs can also be used, which will impact winter appearance. The density at which you plant individual shrubs within a hedge further ...

These stunning shrubs are easily grown from nursery plants, but be ready for a commitment. Camellias can live for 100 to 200 years, slowly growing to their mature size. Popular as a topiary or hedge ...

But by the time winter hits, homegrown produce is often a rarity—unless you happen to have your own root cellar. Root cellars don’t need to be lavish or large. In fact, home gardeners can make ...

Do mosquito-repellent plants really work? Buzzing past your ear as you lounge on the patio, leaving welts on your kids’ ankles as they play in the grass, preventing you from sleeping with their ...

Because of its short stature, Franklin's Gem Boxwood ... hedge This holiday favorite is a low-maintenance evergreen shrub with dark-green, glossy, notched leaves and bright red winter berries ...

So it's important to protect your plants before first frosts strike, to ensure a good display the following year. The level of winter protection required depends on where you live and how exposed ...

so try to delay hedge cutting and tree pruning until the tail end of winter." As well as the many plants which produce berries for birds, including cotoneaster, pyracantha, berberis and yew ...

Jennifer Forman-Orth, an environmental biologist with the state’s Department of Agricultural Resources, said some plants were “tricked” by this year’s mild winter. They may have sprouted ...

For much of the United States, winter is a dark season of naked trees, stinging cold and a bulging waistline. (You have to keep warm somehow, and an alternating schedule of hibernation and gorging ...

Although Charleston isn’t typically thought of as a winter getaway ... The five-day festival, which takes place March 6-10, 2019, features more than 100 events that allow participants to ...

Humans have great fun in the winter snow building snowmen ... How leaves of broadleaf plants are broken down by earthworms, fungi and slime molds. Male birds sing to attract a partner and warn ...