Sometimes the very best plants for the garden turn out to be right under our noses. They are on show in every garden centre, yet somehow remain a little disregarded, not receiving the fanfare that ...

If you thought there wasn't much to look at outside at this time of year - think again. Dozens of beautiful trees and shrubs are at their colourful best in December and into early spring and here are ...

Spotted at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest -- a flower in bloom!That's right, one singular, beautiful flower. Forest officials posted a photo of it to the Facebook page explaining that a Higan ...

Many small ornamental trees brighten the Chicago region with their spring blooms: redbuds, crabapples, serviceberries, magnolias, wild plums and many more. Cherries, not so much. The Japanese cherry ...

STEPHEN RYAN: This is another one of my 'winter wonder' plants. This is Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis' the so called Autumn Cherry. Now most cherries are one week wonders. As soon as they come into ...

Vancouver’s Cherry Blossom Festival gets under way tomorrow (March 28) with a month of activities to celebrate the beauty of cherry blossoms. For more information about the festival see my story on ...

DESPITE all the bad weather, the rain and the gales, and despite the ravages of disease, the popular and widely grown winter-flowering cherry is very conspicuous in lots of gardens these days. Most ...