There’s a particular kind of garden that stops you in your tracks. It doesn’t shout. It draws you in quietly, with depth at ...

Shrubs are more widespread than trees in nature and on Earth. A new study explains their global success. It turns out that the multiple stems of shrubs are of key importance. This feature contributes ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

In urban areas, diverse and complex habitats for biodiversity are often lacking. This lack of diversity not only compromises essential ecological processes, such as pollination and nutrient cycling, ...

Everyone seems to go wild for sugar maple trees in the fall because here in New England their leaves turn wonderful colors — yellow, orange and, best of all, red. But some trees and shrubs have ...

Some trees and shrubs have a bad reputation for being susceptible to diseases: lilacs to powdery mildew, junipers to juniper tip blight, flowering crabapples to apple scab, and elms to Dutch elm ...

The strangest response I’ve had from a reader occurred years ago when a gardener scolded me for describing a plant — I don’t recall what it was — as a shrub. He was upset because his specimen had ...

Which fertilizer for trees and shrubs is best? Healthy trees and shrubs will beautify a lawn throughout each season of the year. Although these plants are typically hardy, they sometimes need extra ...