These low-maintenance landscaping ideas are perfect for homeowners with small front yards and are backed by expert approval.

When planting a new tree in your backyard or front yard, consider how tall or wide it will grow.

Small garden? Don't waste an inch of valuable space! Here's how to create an outdoor space packed with color and texture.

Every neighborhood needs some trees, and every front yard, garden or landscape benefits a tree or two. Trees take in carbon dioxide and provide us with oxygen, cleaning and freshening the air around ...

Like fluffy clouds at dawn, spring-flowering trees delight us with blossoms in billowing masses of sunrise colors. February and March are excellent months to add these and other types of trees to your ...

Chilopsis linearis, the desert willow or desert catalpa, is prized in dry gardens for its showy, fragrant blossoms which cover the tree in summer. When many native bloomers are past their spring glory ...

Spring is a good time to add a tree to your yard. Growing conditions will be cool for a few more weeks allowing the tree to become accustomed to its new site and make a little root growth before the ...

Just because a plant isn’t very well known doesn’t mean it’s a bad choice. People tend to plant what they know and what they see in nearby yards. And so the same few species get planted over and over ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

When shopping for plants at garden centers, it's easy to think everything for sale is safe in your garden but these plants ...

We have reached the point in summer when many of the plants in our landscape are at their best. Lots of green growth, bright flowers, and every type of insect and bird can be seen outside in your ...