A well-planned, beautiful garden includes layers of color and texture, overflowing with annuals and perennials, flowering shrubs, and walkway border plants.

For most spring-flowering trees and shrubs, forcing can be done as soon as the buds on the branches begin to swell in late winter. Forsythia and pussy willow can be forced as early as late ...

If you want to add some showstopping color to your flower garden, there's one pretty plant that will add sparkling blooms ...

A pink flowering tree can be the crown jewel of any garden, adding a burst of color and a touch of elegance that's hard to match. There's something incredibly enchanting about a tree that blooms ...

Small flowering trees bloom in March and transform gardens with beautiful blooms — like deciduous magnolia. Japanese Cherry flowers bring beauty and grow well in sandy to clay soil in USDA zones ...

It flowers virtually non-stop and is especially notable in winter as its vivid yellow daisy blooms offer a sunny antidote to dull, overcast skies. Foliage is greenish-gray and intricately divided.

Squirrels are adorable visitors, but they can wreak havoc on our gardens. There's one flowering plant you'll want to avoid ...

Golden shower tree, however, is well-suited to our climate so it is a mystery why you seldom see it here. And there is another stunning leguminous tree in gold, also strangely absent from our gardens.

Golden shower tree Cassia fistula (Photo by Joshua Siskin) By Joshua Siskin | perfectplants18@yahoo.com PUBLISHED: August 26, 2023 at 8:25 AM PDT ...