A beautiful hedge offers many benefits to a home garden. A wall of green can be a barrier between your space and the outside world, can define a space in your landscape, will dampen road noise, can ...

You might recall that when a reader wrote about twin rows of Italian cypress — one established and healthy, the other newer and dying — the SoCal Garden Clinic asked a Pasadena nurseryman to tackle ...

Q. What do you think about mixing nandina into an azalea hedge to fill in holes and add some needed height? The hedge runs along a shared road the length of our property and the azaleas are not yet ...

What’s not to like in a hedge? They offer myriad advantages over solid alternatives such as walls and fences. For example, they soak up pollution and rainfall, act as barriers against noise and ...

Since time immemorial, people have liked to surround their homes by building fences or growing hedges to create safe and private havens, keeping out predators and keeping in children and livestock.

The Ancient Britons planted hedges to keep their cattle in, but we plant hedges to keep them out. Thick and thorny plantings were sometimes part of the defence system of an Iron Age hill fort. Later ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Most people associate the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show with innovative and inspiring garden design displays featuring plants galore. But the annual ...

Do you ever see a pretty plant and wonder: "what is that?" I'm usually one to whip out my phone to make use of a plant identifier app, but with the bright blue flowering tree I've recently been ...

The brilliance of Ireland’s rural landscape is all it is touted to be. The rolling pastures are more than 40 shades of lush green. About 64% of Ireland’s land area is used for agriculture. Farmland ...