Winter offers a perfect window to accomplish a variety of important tasks around the garden. There's much work to be done ahead of spring: clearing debris, picking out seeds, and, of course, pruning.

As a nurseryman, I am occasionally asked: “What’s an attractive small tree that grows quickly and has lovely flowers?” That’s a short list, but one very fine candidate is the Mediterranean tree Vitex ...

Native to Southern Europe and Central Asia, the chaste tree quickly grows into a multi-trunked shrub 10 to 20 feet tall and wide with a broad, spreading habit. The flowers, upward-growing panicles up ...

Recently, while chatting with an arborist friend of mine with decades of experience, he mentioned he saw a tree service working on trees around the townhouses where he lives, which had been contracted ...