Looking to block out those nosy neighbors or conceal unsightly views in your yard? The trick is to use your flora and fauna to your advantage, creating a privacy bush, or 'green wall' in your yard.

Whether you're growing shrubs for privacy, to add height to a garden space, to cover or hide an unsightly structure, or simply for the heck of it, a flowering shrub can be an easy way to get the best ...

This flowering bush boasts the bright colors and shape perfect for attracting hummingbirds. Best of all, it's an easy one to grow for nearly nonstop nectar.

Greedy for a final flush of flowers in fall? Deadheading this list of annuals and perennials can help the plants conserve ...

Bring life to your garden this winter with five ready-to-plant favourites that thrive in the cold. Here's how to plant up a ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. An evergreen flowering ...

It sounds rather heartless to say that we manipulate plants rather than allow them to behave naturally. But that’s really what happens when we create a garden. Few of our plants are precisely the same ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about being enamored with purple flowers and the feeling of calm their presence in the garden creates.