Some trees are gaining popularity as gardeners and landscapers seek out colorful and ornamental varieties that offer low maintenance and year-round interest.

This backyard fruit tree blooms and produces nuts all while providing shade and beauty to your yard despite extreme ...

Got a boring yard? These trees will add color and visual interest. A beautiful, brilliant green yard with a spread of healthy grass is sure to turn heads. However, to really inspire those double takes ...

Crape myrtle The "lilac of the South" gets its name from its crinkly, crepelike flowers and from foliage that resembles the true myrtle. Although native to China and Japan, crapes carry on here as if ...

Flowers are the stars of the garden. Isn't it nice when they sparkle on trees? A flowering or ornamental tree can become the seasonal highlight in your garden — a burst of color as welcomed as an old ...

The best time to prune depends on the type of tree. Spring-flowering trees (dogwoods, redbuds, ornamental cherries) should be pruned soon after flowering is over. These trees set flower buds in the ...

For a bit of early color and fragrance inside your home or office, branches from many common flowering trees and shrubs can be forced to blossom indoors, even when the weather outside is cold and ...

INDEPENDENCE, Ky. (Joe Webb) - The flowering pear trees are in full bloom in the Tri-State right now, and they are blooming for the first time in some unusual places. Birds have spread the seeds from ...

What started as an attractive addition to suburban Indiana landscapes has turned into a threat to Hoosier forests. For years, ornamental pear trees, most commonly known as Bradford pears, have been a ...

Flowering trees are one of the best signs that spring is here, and, fortunately for homeowners in the Phoenix area, our climate allows us to plant a wide range of flowering trees from all over the ...