My first spring catalog has come. The excitement at our house is at a winter high — thinking of all of the green that comes with spring and the opportunities to add to my landscape. I have marked ...

Pieris is widely known as 'flame of the forest', an attractive and easily remembered name, and it was only when this name gained general currency a few decades ago that this wonderful shrub began to ...

Pieris japonica a.k.a the lily-of-the-valley shrub or Japanese andromeda is a favourite spring-flowering bush in many coastal gardens. Native to Japan, it grows 3 to 4 m (9 to 12 feet) high and ...

Spring equinox: Our equal hours of day and night begin their upswing toward the light on the morrow, at least for us (opposite, of course, in the Southern Hemisphere). Yet there are a variety of ...