While bold evergreens can add lovely blue-green shades to your yard, and many maples turn delightful colors in the fall, there's nothing quite like the burst of flowers from a flowering tree. If you ...

Fast-growing flowering trees add beauty to your landscape, rewarding you with lovely blooms and towering stature in just a few years. Slower-growing flowering trees can add character to your garden, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Flowering trees are a two-for-one: They provide all the benefits of trees such as shade, critical resources for animals and the ...

Whether you plant one in your backyard garden or right out front of your home, a tree serves as the focal point of any beautiful, curated landscape. While many offer year-round interest, from the ...

Most homeowners think of trees as scenery - pleasant to look at, nice for shade, maybe a bit of a nuisance when the leaves ...

The sun came out! So it was a day for me and a friend to head to the Boy Scout Camp Trail, dodging rain puddles here and there. A tree swallow cavorted over the river, making long, graceful swoops. We ...

Abutilons (flowering maple) are such a common sight in Bay Area gardens, and there are so many colors now available, that one would be hard pressed to call another entry “new.” But abutilon lovers ...

After the gray of winter, the bright shades of green plants bursting through the soil is a welcome sight. Pops of purple, yellow and white flowers certainly catch the eye. We notice crocus, daffodils ...

If there is one leaf shape everyone knows, it’s the maple leaf. Botanically, it’s known as palmately lobed. Just the other day, I was ogling some Japanese maples at a nursery while lamenting how ...