Beach plums ( Prunus maritima) won't get to be very large, which means they can work well in smaller yards as a showpiece.

May is the greening month. We begin with trees bare of the new foliage, but by the end of the 31 days, the lengthening sunlight, warmer temperatures and ample rainfall give us a forest full of new ...

Bright flowers are yellow with red tinges, though there are red-flowering cultivars available. Witch-hazel can be grown as a shrub or a small tree and offers some yellow/orange/red fall color. It’s ...

There are many flowering shrubs and trees either in bloom or just beginning to bloom right now around Southwest Florida.

There is an Eastern dogwood tree (Cornus florida) — so-called since it is native to the Eastern US — at the end of my block, which I check on each spring to see if it’s flowering.

A branch of hazel (or hazelnut) in late April. Note that the two catkins (male flowers) are yellow with pollen. The small red flower is the female part (stigma).