Q: My husband and I just moved to Summerlin, and I am seeing pink and white blooms on trees in this area. Do you know what kind of trees these are? A: Two very popular ornamental trees grown in our ...

With the early arrival of spring and the abundance of flowering trees, shrubs, and bulbs that seemed to appear all at once, I recently was challenged to identify specific blooming trees according to ...

Crape myrtle The "lilac of the South" gets its name from its crinkly, crepelike flowers and from foliage that resembles the true myrtle. Although native to China and Japan, crapes carry on here as if ...

OAKLAND — Dotted along the thoroughfares and side streets throughout the Bay Area are bursts of pink and white blooms of the Flowering Plum tree, an ornamental, non-fruiting tree with flowers so ...

Trees are the monarchy of the garden. By stature alone they stand above the other plantings, and their dominion grows with each passing year. Trees provide the garden framework, the bones that we so ...

JOHN PATRICK: There's nothing better than delineating an entrance with a matching pair of plants - in this case it'sPrunus mume(Prunus mume'Pendula') the Chinese ...