Your first thought for shrubs for your home is probably the staples like hollies or viburnums and showy bloomers like azaleas or camellias. Those are great choices, but I want you to consider using ...

A fruit tree or shrub which grows quite well in our area is the pomegranate (Punica granatum), which makes a small, shrubby plant to about 15 feet tall with multiple stems. John Walker Fresno Bee Q: I ...

Japanese plum yew offers solutions to many landscape problems: deep shade, evergreen, groundcover, deer resistant, drought-resistant, takes pruning, needs little pruning, clay soils, heat-tolerant, ...

I’d like to introduce you to a different kind of evergreen groundcover that may fill a niche in your landscape. If you are originally from more northern parts of the U.S., you are no doubt familiar ...

Q: What can I plant in a shaded 20-foot-long flower bed between the house and garage? I would like something evergreen. Leucothoe is 6 to 12 feet tall with graceful arching branches and glossy ...

Plum yew, Cephalotaxus prostrata is a shade loving, slow growing evergreen conifer. While yew is a name more commonly associated with the genus Taxus, Cephalotaxus has slightly larger and wider ...

Q: Recently I discovered a plant that was new to me in a local garden shop – it’s an evergreen shrub called Yewtopia. I looked it up on the internet and what I saw was mostly from the nursery that is ...

WHAT: Plum yew, also known as cowtail pine or cephalotaxus harringtonia, is an unusual conifer that is rarely encountered in the landscape. Its flat, deep, dark green needles are 1½ to 2 inches long ...

Trivia: Plum yews are more heat-tolerant than true yews. Deer will not eat plum yews. Foliage: 11/2- to 21/2-inch-long, narrow evergreen needles. Foliage emerges fresh apple-green in the spring and ...

Your first thoughts of shrubs for your home are probably of staples such as hollies or viburnums and showy bloomers such as azaleas or camellias. Those are great choices, but I want you to consider ...