Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese lilac, miscanthus, star jasmine You’ve found your perfect backyard, but there’s building going on in the next plot and you ...

Planting fast-growing evergreen shrubs in your landscape is an easy way to create a privacy screen, reduce noise, and add ...

These evergreen or deciduous shrubs protect your garden oasis from prying eyes and create a sense of solitude.

Poet Robert Frost believed that "good fences make good neighbors." As an alternative, however, you can establish an environmentally friendly line of demarcation by using native species to create a ...

Shrubs can be a reliable presence in your garden, providing screens between different growth zones, acting as borders between the outside world and your leafy sanctuary, or just ensuring that as ...

Growing a green screen (a thick row of trees or shrubs) is something many homeowners want to do somewhere on their property. It takes planning, lots of time and can be costly. Whether to block your ...

Jennifer Lopez's smart botanical layering technique proves you do not need a sprawling estate to create a completely secluded ...

Illicium, also known as anise shrub, is a genus of flowering shrubs with 38 known species. Of those, two are most commonly found in our North Carolina landscapes: Illicium floridanum and Illicium ...

Now that the holidays have passed and we all could stand to shed a few pounds, what better way to get active than tackling some yard work? Winter is a great time to plant trees and shrubs, giving them ...

These evergreen heroes will add structure, colour and fullness to your garden through every season ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees and shrubs grow in the front yard of a house, including shrubs with red flowers and tall evergreens - Pavel Str/Shutterstock ...