While bold evergreens can add lovely blue-green shades to your yard, and many maples turn delightful colors in the fall, there's nothing quite like the burst of flowers from a flowering tree. If you ...

Whether you plant one in your backyard garden or right out front of your home, a tree serves as the focal point of any beautiful, curated landscape. While many offer year-round interest, from the ...

And if you're hoping to get even more spring blossoms next year, experts say to plant the flowering dogwood tree in November ...

Most gardeners know the excitement that comes with seeing a tiny hummingbird zip in and out of the yard. While feeders are a fantastic way to bring more of these fast-flying creatures onto the ...

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 ...

Finding plants that can survive in shallow soil can be tricky, so we've rounded up 22 of them that don't mind the shade and ...

With spring right around the corner, San Diego County is about to experience the buds, flowers and sweet smells that come from the beautiful flowering trees that thrive in Southern California.

That line of pear trees in the Palomar neighborhood in south Lexington is gorgeous, fluffy and decked out like clouds descended to suburban Earth. The problem is that pear trees are also invasive. And ...

On this week's Backyard Farmer we'll see some beautiful examples of spring flowering trees and hear about the definitions of words like 'organic,' 'natural,' and 'Non-GMO. The Backyard Farmer experts ...