Dwarf trees are ideal for adding structure and interest to small spaces. While gardening in compact yards might at first seem ...

If you'd like to add privacy, shade, or just a windbreak shrub to your yard, arborvitae are a great way to do that. Arborvitae belong to the cypress family and are versatile evergreen trees and shrubs ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. White-cedar is a slow-growing tree that reaches 25 to 40 feet in height and ...

These pale blue -- whatever they are -- were just too cool to pass up without a picture. Technically, they are the "cones" of dwarf golden arborvitae, Platycladus orientalis (formerly Thuja orientalis ...

Evergreen trees grow well in containers, as long as you get the cultivar and conditions right. One specific genus looks great ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Eastern Arborvitae, a member of the Cypress family, botanically known as Thuja occidentalis, also is referred to as Eastern White cedar and American Arborvitae. It was named ...

This spruce tree will never fill back in after being cut back too severely into the bare inner branches. Q: My dwarf Alberta spruce is obviously not a dwarf anymore. It's grown bigger than I want it ...

The trees surrounding Wheatland tower overhead, yet in one corner, the plants can be crushed by the tiniest feet. Here, in the dwarf conifer garden, a circle of twigs surrounds a 5-inch tall ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Between the rain, ice and snow and the wind-driven rain, ice and snow our region experienced this winter, Staten Island yards and gardens sustained a good deal of damage. Most ...