Love it or hate it, rhododendron is important to many wildlife species and its leaves are truly Mother Nature’s thermometer.
Who doesn't love a Japanese garden? The peace, harmony and beauty of these spaces is appealing to so many of us. Whether ...
They have small waxy, needle-shaped leaves that can resist deep winter freezes. Rhododendrons are one of the few plants with large leaves that stay green in our climate all winter long.
Rhododendron yuanbaoshanense, with a height of 1 to 2 meters, features broadly ovate to orbicular leaves with a cordate-auriculate base and pink to pale pinkish-purple, funnelform-campanulate to ...
There are a few plants that will still benefit from being pruned in February, according to the experts, who have shared the three common plants that need pruning now ...
A squirrel huddles up amid the cold of winter. Squirrel tracks are abundant in the snow that's fallen this year, but spring ...
Now is the time for some winter pruning on ornamental shrubs and trees. From December to late March is the perfect time to ...
You don’t need a thermometer to tell you how cold it is when the leaves of rhododendrons are curled up like they are now. They do that to retain moisture. Near some rhododendrons outside my ...
Although extremely cold weather brings about some very un-chic things (see: ice inside of windows, drafts in older buildings, and lots and lots of snow to shovel), it also brought about this extremely ...
Near some rhododendrons outside my office is a crabapple tree with half of its branches broken off from a storm last summer. It was one of the first trees I planted more than 40 years ago for its ...