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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...