In maturity, the basswood develops a pyramidal shape and can grow to 80 feet high and 50 feet wide. The heart-shaped leaves ...

Here are some amazing flowering evergreens to try in your shade garden. Native to the eastern United States, Mountain Laurel is a small evergreen tree with glossy green leaves that blooms in late ...

By Cliff Johnson Carver/Scott Master gardener In the late 1940s, thousands of soldiers returned from WWII and immediately set about buying homes and producing children (i.e., the “baby boom”). The ...

pest resistance and provision of shade. The leaves are falling from deciduous trees such as bur oaks, cedar elms and hackberry. They are valuable sources of organic material and nutrients let ...