Small living rooms can make you feel like you have to choose between a Christmas tree and walking through your own house. You want something that feels like “real Christmas,” but you also don’t want ...

Not all trees need to be large in order to make a statement. Small trees – which are officially known as “dwarf trees” in garden parlance and don’t grow above 30 feet– can liven up a front yard with ...

Chilopsis linearis, the desert willow or desert catalpa, is prized in dry gardens for its showy, fragrant blossoms which cover the tree in summer. When many native bloomers are past their spring glory ...

Native trees don't always work for small yards, but this colorful cultivar is the perfect size, and its blooms will buzz with ...

When I lived in New York City, the view from my kitchen window was framed by a tremendous scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea) who towered over the brick homes below — a 150-year-old remnant from before the ...

NEW YORK — In rural Georgia, 100 years ago this spring, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant, made what a newspaper called “unwise remarks” about the lynching of her husband. So a mob came for her, too.