Whatever you plant in place of the red-tip photinia, look for shrubs that will work well in your landscape and avoid invasive, disease-prone, or foul-smelling plants at the nursery.

Gardeners love planting flowers, shrubs, and trees to draw more birds to their yards. This fiery red option can do that, and provide food and nesting areas too.

Q. Last year we lost several mature red-tip photinias. What can we do to prevent the loss of the other shrubs? -- E.P., Deer Park A. Several problems plague red tips, especially those in alkaline ...

Q: I was recently in a nursery looking for a red tip photinia to plant along a fence. They advised me that they hadn't carried them in years. Is this true? — Willis Dobbs, Atlanta ...

Photinia is an evergreen shrub that may make an attractive addition to your garden. The new growth of leaves is bright red; the flowers are clusters of small, white blossoms. There are several spec… ...

It looks a lot like the Red-tip Photinia and would seem a likely choice for replacement. However, this site also says that Cleyera requires acidic soil for best performance, dislikes hot, dry ...

Q: My 30-year-old photinia shrubs developed leaf spot fungus. The bushes were looking worn, and so my son-in-law has removed them so that I can refresh my landscape. Do I have to treat the soil ...

The red tip shrubs (Photinia) should have gone dormant for the winter by now. That means that pruning them will not stimulate a flush of new growth. So, feel free to prune them now.

Summertime brings out the best in South Florida's favored ixora shrubs. At this time of the year it is hard to miss the flourishing ixoras with their large blooms in colors of orange, red, coral ...