Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to landscaping, evergreens are the savvy gardener’s secret to year-round beauty. Unlike fair-weather flowers or ...

Come winter most gardens are a little past their prime, looking brown, wilted, and maybe a little sad. That doesn't have to be the case, though. Gardeners who plan ahead and plant evergreens can have ...

Deciduous and evergreen types are ideal to create privacy in your yard. Here are 15 privacy shrubs that thrive both in full sun or partial shade.

Whether you have a large backyard or a small patch of green to call your own, often our gardens are a space for solace and privacy -- but this isn't always easy to achieve. Tall fences can be ...

This coniferous evergreen produces whorled foliage on upright stems for a dense canopy perfect for privacy plantings. The variety Roman Candle® from the Southern Living Plant Collection offers unique ...

Evergreen shrubs are a fantastic choice for a garden as they offer year-round benefits — delivering colour and structure in spring and summer, then keeping their foliage when other plants look bare in ...

There are a great many holly choices, but some are better than others. Here are the best of this group of excellent evergreen shrubs and trees. Dwarf yaupon holly has small, soft, spineless leaves. No ...

The tranquillity of the garden centre at this time of year is an illusion. Walking between the rows of diminutive evergreen shrubs growing in their pots, one can easily be led into believing that such ...

Another hotter-than-normal summer has our landscape plants struggling to sweat it out – some more so than others. Like people, plants don’t cope equally well with excess heat. Ones native to the ...

While a backyard flower border serves an entirely different purpose compared to a front entry bed, it must look neat from the street, groomed next to the front door, and balanced even without ...

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt. Did you return from a European tour of chateau gardens, obsessed with formal knot gardens? Have you ...

Statuesque evergreen plants with palm-like foliage also work excellently here, their subtropical appearance amplifying that sense of leafy, otherworldly seclusion in a way that’s only possible in ...