Everyone wants a lush garden, but not everyone wants to wait for their plants to reach full maturity. One great solution is fast-growing native plants, which can grow several feet tall in just a year, ...

Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

If you wanted to create a garden of nothing but Australian plants, you would have a cornucopia of beauties from which to choose. You could find ground covers, shrubs, and trees that flower ...