When outdoor space is at a premium, these are the plants you should get in your planters to bring sweet scents come ...

Here are small evergreen plants for shade: use them to create your ... gold, green, white, and blue. They are low-maintenance plants that require sporadic pruning and do well, lining the ...

J. conferta ‘Blue Pacific’ – Also called Blue Pacific Shore, this slow-growing, heat-tolerant juniper has handsome blue-green ...

The final part of our best-new-plants-of-2025 series concludes with a look at some of the top new trees and shrubs debuting ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...

Blue growth rings found in woody plant stems represent years when cells did not lignify properly because of summers too cold for growth When the going gets cold, even tough trees struggle with ...

A blue ring formed in 1902 in a tree in northern Norway. Image by Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz. Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the ...

As gardeners, weeds are one of our biggest pet peeves. They compete with our plants for nutrients, water, and sunlight, take ...

Miss Lemon Abelia is an exceptional evergreen shrub with variegated foliage that offers a luminous effect year-round. (Photo by MSU Extension/Eddie Smith) Evergreen shrubs have year-long garden beauty ...