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 ...

These trees and shrubs provide food for wildlife while adding some welcome color to the winter landscape.

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 ...

Outsmart hungry deer with this stunning plant collection. Discover gorgeous shrubs that resist deer browsing. Learn how to use these deer resistant plants to add color and texture to the garden.

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, ...

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 ...

Deck the halls inside and out with hardy shrubs that produce an abundance of winter berries. These festive plants stand up to hot Southern summers and weather the cold to warm the winter garden with ...

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 ...

The plants can be prolific vining plants or more compact, bushy ones. They all thrive in full sun and bloom until a killing frost. BOUGAINVILLEA Bougainvillea is often sold in hanging baskets and ...