Landscaping with conifers

Landscaping with evergreens is the backbone of most garden spaces. However, landscaping with conifers can be confusing. So how do you choose the best conifers for landscaping, keep them healthy, and improve your homes value over the long term? Here's how...

Conifers provide the garden with incredible form, color and texture in every season. Learn one expert’s secrets to designing with these evergreens.

Narrow side gardens are the reality for many suburban homes but die hard gardeners don’t need to sacrifice height and beauty just because their footprint is small. Look for trees, shrubs and …

It seems like every day we get questions about plants for narrow spaces. This might be a tight area between buildings, between a sidewalk and the house, or maybe along a garage wall or fence. Choosing an inappropriate plant for such a situation will surely bring troubles down the road. There are a

"Horstmann" is a cultivar of blue atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) prized for its evergreen...

Next weekend the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon is yet again partnering with the Garden Conservancy for the annual Garden Conservancy Open Garden Tour. The tour is a fundraiser for a couple of good …

Compact evergreen plants are great for a small-scale garden and you can't beat their low maintenance qualities and the year round interest that they offer by staying green in the winter.

Landscape layering is designing a garden that uses a variety of different plants positioned in multiple rows to form a casual, mixed border planting.

Newberg-area Oregon Small Trees Nursery features more than 4,000 trees, many which you won't find anywhere else, write garden columnists Marcia Westcott Peck and Dennis Peck.