While bold evergreens can add lovely blue-green shades to your yard, and many maples turn delightful colors in the fall, there's nothing quite like the burst of flowers from a flowering tree. If you ...

Whether you plant one in your backyard garden or right out front of your home, a tree serves as the focal point of any beautiful, curated landscape. While many offer year-round interest, from the ...

The glossy leaves smell like cinnamon and nutmeg, and the yellow bell-shaped flowers, which bloom in winter from early December to February, smell like candy canes and vanilla. Grown against a wall, ...

On Backyard Farmer we'll see some beautiful examples of spring flowering trees and more. On this week's Backyard Farmer we'll see some beautiful examples of spring flowering trees and hear about the ...

As I drive around town I keep seeing flowering cherry trees in bloom in landscapes. Every time I see one, I want to stop and take a picture, they are just so beautiful. There are numerous varieties of ...

There are few garden plants as majestic as flowering trees. Their sheer size adds an unmistakable dimension to the garden. When they bloom, the flowers look to be flying in the air. Most of our common ...

With spring right around the corner, San Diego County is about to experience the buds, flowers and sweet smells that come from the beautiful flowering trees that thrive in Southern California.

Q. Among the many beautiful flowering trees in our gardens now, I notice white flowering trees “in the wild” along highways and just “in the woods”…what is the name of these trees? I used to see them ...

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Crape myrtle The "lilac of the South" gets its name from its crinkly, crepelike flowers and from foliage that resembles the true myrtle. Although native to China and Japan, crapes carry on here as if ...