What makes a landscape high maintenance? The saying “right plant, right place” is the grown-up version of the matching game. Does the plant match the site’s light, soil, water and space requirements?

Yew trees and shrubs (Taxus) are among the most versatile of conifers. These slow-growing, long-lived evergreens are drought-tolerant, pest-free and amazingly easy to prune. Most have dark green ...

Q: I want to make a hedge using dwarf yew pine (Podocarpus macrophyllus “maki”) in a planter box. Will that work for three or four plants? What size do you recommend for at least three to four plants ...

Do you have an evergreen hedge or shrub by your house foundation that looks like it’s been there since the 1950s? Or the 1920s? Probably has. It’s probably yew. Some yews, in their native habitat of ...

When it comes to landscaping, choosing the type of plants you want can be difficult. Sure, you can ornament your garden with violas or marigolds, but those are annuals, and you’ll have to do it all ...

We are fortunate to have many broad-leaved evergreen shrubs in the Lowcountry landscape. These ornamental and native shrubs keep their leaves during our relatively mild winters. Some people like to ...

SEATTLE — Nothing cheers up the winter garden like evergreen plants with golden foliage. Golden-yellow leafed plants brighten the landscape imbuing spaces with a radiant luminosity and a splash of ...

Hedges can be attractive and functional additions to landscapes. From only a few feet to as much as 15 feet tall, they may be clipped for a formal look, pruned to control size and shape or allowed to ...