Start the process of choosing small or dwarf trees by determining your home’s plant hardiness zone and the drainage condition of your landscape’s soil. These factors will determine which types ...

The cool weather tripped the trees to color ... the summer, ornamental grasses have added life to our gardens, providing strong upright and mounding elements to the garden. Their fine texture ...

The family of fall-friendly flowers includes hardy annuals as well as biennials and perennials. Keep in mind that 25 degrees ...

We've compiled some of our favorite recommendations for low-maintenance companion plants that will thrive and look beautiful ...

DEAR NEIL: I’m looking for a plant to replace several holly ferns that used to be in shade until we lost a post oak tree. The ...

In the summer of 1973 sunflowers appeared in my father's vegetable garden ... Today flowering plant species outnumber by twenty to one those of ferns and cone-bearing trees, or conifers, which ...

When we trialled them, we put cut Nordmann and Norway trees into plastic stands with a good-sized water reservoir. The Nordmann started to look a little jaded and the Norway lost a few needles, but ...

Courtesy photo This is a great week to score bargains at the garden center or nursery ... the pendulous skirts of grafted or dwarf Japanese maples. Any tree that loses it leaves in the winter ...

Apart from dragging a spruce or fir tree inside and dressing it up in yuletide costume, we tend to leave the real natural world to its own seasonal devices until it reemerges in Spring.

"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...