Trees with vibrant spring blossoms are often at the top of gardeners’ and landscapers’ planting lists. Their popularity is likely due to the attention the flowers attract this time of year, the ...

Each spring, as the garden shakes off its winter sleep, buds erupt into bloom in a celebration of the new season. Among those earliest to appear — in concert with and sometimes ahead of the hellebores ...

It will soon be spring. How do I know? The Japanese Magnolias are in bloom. Nothing signals the arrival of spring better than flowering trees. There are many spring flowering trees that will soon be ...

The name "John Chapman" probably doesn’t ring a bell, but his nickname – "Johnny Appleseed" – surely does. In the 1800s Chapman, a nurseryman and missionary, introduced apple trees into numerous ...

When Kathleen Salisbury worked in a garden center, lots of customers asked for plants with four-season interest. Most of them equated that with evergreens. Salisbury, now director of Temple University ...

Spring is coming, and soon many trees will bloom before their foliage emerges. I enjoy spring, because driving by a golden trumpet tree in full bloom with its bright yellow flowers makes me happy. If ...

Two Bradford pear trees side by side in full bloom in front of a house - The Old Major/Shutterstock Nothing alerts you more to the onset of spring than a pretty blossoming tree that's just demanding ...

Most bushes that flower in the summer do so on new growth. That means you can prune anything you like in the spring, since the new growth hasn’t started yet. Butterfly bush and rose of sharon fall ...

When you plant pretty trees with pink and white flowers in your backyard, the spring air fills with their sweet scent and lovely flowers. It’s like getting the best of both a backyard tree and a ...