Pendulous, or weeping plants generally are the result of an accidental genetic variation in a seedling. Other plant accidents have resulted in the production of dwarf plants and variegated leaves, as ...

As the leaves fall and the winter landscape is unveiled, the beauty of winter takes on a dramatic look all its own. Intriguing shapes and silhouettes are suddenly visible now that the leaves have ...

Now that the holidays have passed and we all could stand to shed a few pounds, what better way to get active than tackling some yard work? Winter is a great time to plant trees and shrubs, giving them ...

Knowledgeable gardeners consider shrubs to be the most versatile of any category of plants. Some shrubs are treelike, others are creeping, spreading, weeping or globose. Some of our hardiest shrubs ...

Some plants are born to be stars. These are the trees with weeping or funky growth habits, shrubs with screaming-hot leaves, flowers with blooms the size of softballs, and generally anything that ...

Grafting is a horticultural technique used to vegetatively join the top of one plant to the base of another to the type of fruit we’re wanting but on a smaller tree. On grafted dwarf fruit trees, the ...

Q.: We have a weeping birch in our front yard and this is its third season. It is a healthy tree with nice leaves and most of the branches going all the way to the ground. When we planted it it was ...

Why do some trees weep? Because they want to grow down. Instead of reaching for the sky, as most trees do, young stems of weeping trees toy only briefly with upward growth before arching gracefully ...