The Missouri legislature approved a law that would ban the sale of multiple invasive plants, including burning bush and ...

Two of my favorite flowering trees, and perhaps yours, too, are the redbud and lilacs. Both are just finishing their ...

Researching plant species on the eastern slopes of the Andean rainforest in South America, a botanist with Marie Selby ...

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

Quinces were far more known and cultivated than apples for centuries, but they seem to be lost in obscurity nowadays. Let's ...

This popular low-growing plant seems like a nice, innocuous groundcover, but it’s an aggressive grower that can spread 50 ...

Tree planting is a long-term commitment. While you may want to cheat a bit and plant a fast-growing variety, there are some ...

But some heirloom varieties have made a real comeback in ... (often a hardy variety that is disease resistant, like a flowering crabapple). This same process is also performed for pear trees, which ...

Growing a pear tree from seed requires a lot of time ... The hope is that the differing varieties will help pollinate one another, spark flowering, then bear fruit, but this outcome is not a given.

Bradford pear trees ... plant for ornamental plantings," said Grabosky. "We planted it everywhere and now we have this invasive problem everywhere where we were planting these trees." ...

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.

As you wander around outside you may see many different types of trees and shrubs ... One common tree we see blooming now is the flowering pear tree. This is a beautiful tree with a nice fragrance.