This coniferous evergreen produces whorled foliage on upright stems for a dense canopy perfect for privacy plantings. The variety Roman Candle® from the Southern Living Plant Collection offers unique ...

This evergreen tree or shrub will add structure and a beautiful green color to your garden. Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann Podocarpus (Podocarpus macrophyllus) includes several varieties of ...

Whether you have a large backyard or a small patch of green to call your own, often our gardens are a space for solace and privacy -- but this isn't always easy to achieve. Tall fences can be ...

Why install plants with potential heights of 40 to 50 feet to serve as waist or chest-high hedges? That’s been the case for a long time with podocarpus (P. macrophyllus), a Japanese evergreen tree. Of ...

LAKELAND -- When gardeners think about Podocarpus, they're more likely to view them as utilitarian plants than as objects of beauty. This isn't surprising because Podocarpus don't bear attractive ...

Question. My podocarpus has black on the leaves and suffers in the sun during the heat. What should I do? Answer. Podocarpus are tough, durable plants that can grow under challenging situations, but ...

I talk a lot in these columns and in my gardening classes about landscape plants that have various elements of aesthetic interest and about plants that are weird, unusual or uniquely noteworthy. It ...

Species of the genus Podocarpus, distributed predominantly in the Southern Hemisphere and parts of Asia, have long been valued in traditional medicine for treating fever, respiratory ailments and ...