From size to color to functionality, learn what consumers are looking for in shrubs today — and how breeders are responding.

Grow native plants on your property and harvest the seeds before they drop, drift away or are eaten by migrating birds.

There are nearly 4,000 native bee species in the United States, contributing to pollination in agricultural, urban and natural landscapes. Honey bees, however, are not native to the U.S., which has ...

October is a great month for transplanting certain trees, shrubs and perennials and also for planting bulbs such as tulips, ...

Shrubs are the bones of a landscape - multitasking as hedges, windbreaks, privacy screens, and edging. Of course, like other ...

All those perennials you’ve been nursing along for years have been dutifully growing, and they occasionally benefit from ...

One of the most common of these bright fall shrubs, commonly known as Burning Bush, was classified by the Pennsylvania ...

With about 300 different species, the iris is one of the most visually striking plants in the garden. Whether grown in ...

You find these plants in lawns and gardens, at the edges of parking lots, along roadsides and even in the cracks of concrete ...

The leaves are falling, there’s a chill in the air, and the countdown for Winter has begun — it must be October. Though it ...

"Before flowering plants appeared," says Dale Russell ... Often described as a "living fossil," this small woody plant grows only on New Caledonia, a South Pacific island famous among botanists ...