Growing trees with vibrant fall colors is one way to do this, adding interest to your yard despite the change in seasons.

This week's Plant Pick of the Week is a native shrub that turns wine-red and ripens blue-black berries in early fall.

The small-leaved rhododendron has surprisingly pretty fall foliage. The most common one, which you see in bloom everywhere in ...

It's not only full-size trees that put on an amazing fall color display when autumn arrives. Quite a few deciduous shrubs turn red in the fall before they lose their leaves for the winter. If you want ...

Leave the guesswork out of your patio with this advice on the plants experts will always pick for increasing privacy ...

Glory of the snow ( Chionodoxa luciliae) is another plant that can survive winter outside. A bulb perennial, it can often ...

Dwarf snowball (Viburnum tinus) is a low maintenance flowering shrub with white blooms ... They do great in full sun but can handle some shade, too. Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca ...

A bushy, deciduous shrub to 4m, with maple-like, 3-lobed, dark green leaves, differing from others in the species by the long terminal lobe, with brilliant purple-red tints in autumn. Flat clusters of ...

Lucidum' is a vigorous, evergreen shrub, to 4m tall, with narrowly-ovate to oblong, glossy, dark green leaves to 10cm long. Small, creamy-white flowers are borne in flattened flowerheads, up to 10cm ...

Using shade plants and flowers to add some cover to your garden during summer makes sense, as these are the places you’ll want to be on a hot day. The good news is there are lots of shade-loving ...

The quickest way to keep playgrounds open through extreme heat is to get them out of direct sunlight; shade can make a person feel up to 72 degrees Fahrenheit cooler, researchers at UCLA have found.