Adding plants for privacy from neighbors is a great alternative to installing a fence, and extra plants add beauty to your backyard landscape. To check privacy off your gardening to-do list, we asked ...

When you purchase a home within a homeowners association (HOA), the authority over your landscape doesn’t rest solely with you. Oftentimes an HOA, an entity formed of a neighborhood such as a ...

Yew is a perfect shrub choice for privacy. Its needled foliage is evergreen, so you don't have to worry about losing privacy when winter comes. A row of yew shrubs can easily be clipped into a neat ...

Jim Putnam is the plant expert from the Southern Living Plant Collection. Mary Phillips is the head of native plant habitat strategy/certifications at the National Wildlife Federation. Janet Sluis is ...

But sometimes the best fence isn’t a fence at all. It’s a wall of trees and shrubs. Screen trees and large hedge plants can often grow much higher than a typical fence, helping to block unwanted views ...

When you're designing and brainstorming the best plants for a shade garden, you're not beholden to ground covers and tiny flowers. While full sun might sound like a requirement for having tall plants, ...

Even if you’ve found yourself on a "Most Wanted" list for allowing the plant life in your home to waste away, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a statement-making floor plant in your future. Everyone ...

I recently had to take out my 10-foot tripod Hasegawa pruning ladder to take a picture of a flower blossom while standing on the top step. The flower, a black-eyed Susan, stood 9 feet, 3 inches tall ...

You can’t underestimate the power of the right plants in your home, especially when they have all the most chic pots and planters. Plants add color, dimension, texture, and literal life to any space, ...