Some trees and shrubs have a bad reputation for being susceptible to diseases: lilacs to powdery mildew, junipers to juniper ...

Joellen Dimond discusses spring-blooming shrubs, and Mr. D. talks root stock for fruit trees. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Director of Landscape for the University of ...

Birch and poplars produce scaly, pendulous catkins, which are their flowers. Wish that we had honeysuckle as these too can be forced. But flowering almond, often used as a hedge here, produces ...