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 ...

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 ...

Reaching modest heights of six to ten feet, this winter tree is known for its beautiful pink and white blooms, as well as ...

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, they say, and you might occasionally hear that it's also the best medicine. It also turns out to be a vital source of, well, sunlight for plants that require lots of ...

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.

If you are lucky enough to have a large outside space, planting trees is a wonderful way to add structure and foliage. Watching the trees you have planted grow year after year can be incredibly ...

Flowering trees are one of the best signs that spring is here, and, fortunately for homeowners in the Phoenix area, our climate allows us to plant a wide range of flowering trees from all over the ...

On this week's Backyard Farmer we'll see some beautiful examples of spring flowering trees and hear about the definitions of words like 'organic,' 'natural,' and 'Non-GMO. The Backyard Farmer experts ...