While flowering shrubs and perennials certainly have their place in your garden, spring-blooming trees are equally valuable. Many pollinators depend on these early blooms for nectar, while birds stake ...

Cherry blossom branch with tree trunk in the background and petals on the grass - Liliya Krueger/Getty Images Whether you are planting sweet cherries (Prunus avium) or sour cherries (Prunus cerasus), ...

Heidi Truschel-Light , Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, N.Y. The tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, and crocuses that bring color in the spring are available now for planting. This year’s extended warm and ...

Those bright, fuchsia-colored flowering trees that give sparkle to drab early spring landscapes are redbuds. Redbuds flower when few other trees are flowering and the color they give a landscape is ...

Spring is Act I of nature's most colorful show. Trees are flowering everywhere, and we live in an area that is host to many varieties of trees, which is why the show is so spectacular. When one group ...

Not all fruit trees need long, mild growing seasons. Some hardy options grow quickly, tolerate cold, and bring color and ...

DENVER — Fruit trees and spring shrubs are giving us a great show. Most notable are the crabapples with big pink or white displays. Some people hate crabapples because of the mess the fruit can make ...

On a back roads drive to the western North Carolina mountains, we always pass by a scenic little farm whose crowning glory is a row of majestic purple leaf plum trees lining the driveway. I am always ...

After every long, dark winter comes the spring, and in Brooklyn, that means the first blooms of the season are appearing on streets and in gardens as the weather finally begins to warm up. The most ...