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 ...

Spring has sprung! As winter has started fading away and the days have grown longer, nature is beginning to awaken for spring. One of the most exciting parts of the early spring season is the leaves ...

Don't hang up your trowel just yet. Ticking off end-of-year gardening jobs will guarantee a blooming plot next spring (even if it means wrapping up in extra layers when you head outside). A great task ...

I love the many small, flowering trees that help brighten our landscapes from February to April. Blooming now is one of the more beautiful of our early spring-flowering trees, the Japanese magnolia or ...

Most gardeners know the excitement that comes with seeing a tiny hummingbird zip in and out of the yard. While feeders are a fantastic way to bring more of these fast-flying creatures onto the ...

As a real Dutchman, I am a big fan of our beautiful flowers. And as a landscape photographer, I enjoy our colorful spring each year in which I always find time to photograph the flowers and show the ...

When it comes to fresh spring flowers, the general consensus has been that Trader Joe’s is a go-to for thriving and affordable blooms. Like the comeback of its beloved peonies, which have been blowing ...

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 ...

Get ready for spring flowers — the upside of all these spring showers. Washington’s mild climate is ideally suited for various flowering plants, shrubs and trees, including wildflowers, daffodils, ...

It’s that time of year when deciduous trees are putting on their leaves, while the oaks and pines are producing copious amounts of pollen. Live oaks are shedding leaves to put on new growth.