When planning your home landscaping, trees can provide beauty, shade, privacy, and even increase your property value. However, not all trees are created equal when it comes to care. Some species ...

Landscaping with olive trees is a good choice if you're looking for new deck or patio ideas. They will grow in a neat, compact shape so don't take up too much room.

Topiary, the practice of creating ornamental shapes out of trees and shrubs, runs the gamut from elegant all the way to eccentric. And while basic shapes, like cones, globes and spirals, are ...

The location of trees in a landscape is a very important consideration. Also, trees inevitably generate maintenance tasks. In Hampton Roads, storms tend to take them down. Notwithstanding storm dam… ...

The leaves of this tree are also quite distinct — each one has a large, V-shaped notch at the tip. Because tuliptrees transplant easily and grow fast, they are a popular choice for in home yards. But ...

Vaccinium arboreum, sometimes called the blueberry tree, sparkleberry, or farkleberry, has all of the characteristics that make a small tree desirable for the home landscape.

Another idea that can protect your new tree, and even your house in the event of a hurricane, is to plant your southern redcedar in a group of trees. After studying the effects of 11 hurricanes ...