Plus, everything you need to know to create a thriving rain garden in your own yard.

Try summersweet (Clethra alnifolia), recommends Christina ... Occasionally reaching up to 10 feet in height, this evergreen ...

Also, don’t forget some fragrant shrubs. Lilacs are a classic garden shrub that you can smell from yards away. Summersweet, or Clethra alnifolia, as its name says, is wonderfully fragrant ...

Give this deer-resistant shrub an occasional prune in late winter to help it keep its shape. Abelias are best for USDA hardiness zones 4 to 11. The boxwood is a densely growing evergreen shrub ...

Blazek’s advice about incorporating a sun-loving shrub into your landscape is to lean into variety. “Think in terms of layering and mixing shapes and textures,” she says. “Mix in mounded ...

With the right approach to shrub care and maintenance, keeping your property value high for many years is possible. Well-chosen shrubs also contribute to energy efficiency. When strategically ...

Cut close to buds, but not into them, and always above. Early pruning helps establish a shapely shrub with vigorous, balanced growth. Most evergreen shrubs do not need thinning or formative pruning.

From the first months that Brett Ashinoff was at Shrub Oak International School in New York, his parents felt uneasy about the residential school for students with autism. They worried that Brett ...

When folks ask for a flowering shrub that blooms all summer with a nice perfume ... like fragrant hostas, perfumed roses, clethra (summersweet) and summer blooming Jasminum officinale. Fragrance makes ...

Plus, everything you need to know to create a thriving rain garden in your own yard. Getty Images / Meindert van der Haven Do you have an area in your yard where water pools after a storm? Or do ...