Providing the backbone of the garden in summer and a stark beauty in winter, small-leaved evergreens are invaluable. Hazel ...

Keep your front yard tidy and welcoming with these low-maintenance, compact, deer-resistant landscaping plants.

Their glossy, evergreen foliage, absolute cast iron constitution, and programming to bloom all through the winter, makes the fact that they are still not mainstream plants an absolute head scratcher.

By Felder Rushing Gardening Columnist Winter weather’s effects on the garden getting to you? Not this jaded horticulturist, ...

Don’t automatically blame cold weather for killing your plants over the winter. Most plants that suffer chronic winter damage and die are stressed plants that would have died from something ...

Winter bed thinning is effective because it’s easier to be ruthless about clearing away elderly plants when they aren’t ...

In our climate, many plants add winter interest in the form of flowers, fragrance, and colourful berries, bark and foliage.

First, there is not one type of evergreen. Conifers, or cone-bearing woody plants, are what we typically think of when talking about plants being evergreen. However, the deciding factor is the native ...

Most plants will stay dormant until early March, depending on the weather. Evergreens are an exception. Because they are not entirely dormant in winter, it’s best to wait to prune them until you ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...