For some varieties, it’s the scent. Choose well and in almost every month of the year your garden will be filled with ...

If your New Year’s resolutions include landscaping with more native plants, consider Viburnum prunifolium, commonly called black haw viburnum, a shrub or small tree that can be enjoyed the entire year ...

Viburnums tend to be unsung shrubs, and I just don’t know why. Their showy, often fragrant spring flowers, followed many times by spectacular berries and beautiful autumn foliage, make them, in my ...

Q: I have a wonderful snowball viburnum but never notice it producing berries. Do I need another viburnum species nearby for it to “berry up” for the birds?Melody Miller, McLean, Virginia Q: I have a ...

Some trees and shrubs are at their best in fall, from the human or bird point of view. It’s a great time to go to nurseries to see what plants look like this month, and notice what berries or fruits ...

Joellen Dimond discusses shrubs, and Mr. D. talks about fall and winter fruit tree care. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen ...

As we enter the last month of the year, I pause to look back at November. During the first weeks, the month seemed to act like early fall. Not only were snow and ice absent, so were the colder ...

There are many happenings of late summer as we now move into September. Some of these, like the leaf colors, are hard to not notice. Various trees turn at different times and the month is largely one ...