If you live in USDA hardiness zone 8 and are not sure what to plant, here is a comprehensive list of ones you should consider ...

Take advantage of Zone 12's year-round intense heat by growing giant yucca (Yucca gigantea). It prospers when the mercury settles between 70 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit, but is hardy to Zone 10.

As to the problem with knees, most cypress trees planted in well-drained average landscapes do not produce knees. But once a tree starts, there is no way to make it stop other than removing the tree.

The upright-growing pond cypress has unfolded leaves forming a filament effect. The Montezuma bald cypress tree leafs out earlier and holds its foliage longer in the fall, and it grows fast. It ...

One cypress he discovered here in 2017 dates to at least 605 B.C., not long after Homer regaled the Greeks with the adventures of Odysseus. That makes it over 2,600 years old, and Stahle has found ...

Hillman said the trees were mostly one-year-old and about three feet high at the time of the plantings. With a success rate of 70% here, the plantings have produced an almost “instant forest.” ...