A summer heat wave can make for a great day at the beach or pool, but might leave your garden struggling. If you tend to have very hot summers where you live, choose heat-tolerant shrubs. They are ...

Spotlight on shrubs, an indispensable part of any well-designed landscape Add as a preferred source on Google Shrubs are an indispensable part of any well-designed landscape. Along with trees, shrubs ...

Among our most enigmatic shrubs is oleander (Nerium oleander). Though not uncommon here, it’s certainly not present in numbers that its beautiful blossoms would warrant. The reason, of course, is ...

A single leaf can trigger a medical emergency. That is not a horror-movie exaggeration. It is the reality of oleander, a flowering shrub that lines driveways, brightens front yards, and decorates ...

I have been writing about "parking lot plants" for a couple of years now. You know, those plants that can survive just about anything humankind can throw at them and still beautify our least appealing ...