What to know about woody shrubs in your landscape. Woody shrubs and small trees have many overlapping characteristics.

Using organic mulch in landscape beds, around trees and in vegetable gardens helps retain moisture, deter weeds and moderate ...

As Paul Blanding, Partner and Landscape Architect at The Outside Design Studio, puts it, “nature abhors a void.” He adds that ...

To be fair, landscape fabric has its place. Unfortunately, it’s widely misused in most home landscape applications, where it ...

Landscape fabric blocks nutrients. You can’t easily add compost, fertilizer, or other soil amendments when a sheet of ...

Planting trees in your landscape is pretty simple, but it involves more than just digging a hole and popping in a tree. John Traverso, an arborist and owner of Walnut Creek-based Traverso Tree ...

Follow a few basic rules if you plan to landscape around tree root systems. Failing to do so may damage or even cause death of certain trees. One’s objective should ...

When it comes to landscaping around trees, less is often more. One key to landscaping around trees is to not pack too many plants into one small area. New Backyard Smart video offers landscaping ...

A tree can tell you a lot about the forest. If you learn the patterns of the forces that shaped the tree, you know a little bit about the history of the woods around you.

DROUGHT STRESS…we're all feeling it: dirty cars, fallow fields, hurried showers, brown lawns, and now our landscape trees are suffering, too. Without trees, our ecosystem changes, creating a ...

When it comes to landscaping around trees, less is often more. One key to landscaping around trees is to not pack too many plants into one small area. New Backyard Smart video offers landscaping ...