Spring is home renovation season, and no area of a home is off limits. That includes home exteriors, particularly in regard to landscaping.

A yard full of soaring, healthy trees is a dream for many homeowners, but picking the wrong species can lead to clogs, leaks, ...

As a former realtor, general contractor and greenhouse operator, Kristi has touched nearly all aspects of homeownership, from the foundation up. Today, Kristi is a full-time investing and real estate ...

As winter begins to ebb in a few weeks, people will be thinking about landscape issues again. An unfortunate question I am sometimes asked is similar to this: “I lost my prized shade tree! What can I ...

Springtime will soon be making an appearance across the state of Iowa. The green is a welcome sight as trees bud out across the rural landscape. The tree line isn’t as green as it once was, however.

Evergreens don't have to be cut off at the ankles to serve as Christmas trees. It's possible to buy trees with their roots intact so they can serve briefly as the year's Christmas tree but then go ...

Once promoted by the government as the perfect ornamental landscape tree, Bradford pears are now seen as a dangerous scourge ...

However, plants native to the tropics can suffer even when nighttime lows dip into the 40s. The bulk of plants in Pennsylvania landscapes fall somewhere between. Each has a limit to what it’ll endure.