When you plant pretty trees with pink and white flowers in your backyard, the spring air fills with their sweet scent and ...

Maybe I’ve been exposed to too many great ideas at flowers shows and botanic gardens around the world, but traditional ways of sorting plants by genre are blurred to me.

While in Grenada, Mississippi, speaking at the Garden Clubs of Mississippi’s 26th Annual Convention, I couldn’t help but ...

This popular low-growing plant seems like a nice, innocuous groundcover, but it’s an aggressive grower that can spread 50 ...

Designer and hostess Meg Braff imbues playful glamour and cheerful traditional details to make signature gatherings memorable ...

The Black Gum Tupelo is heat tolerant, adapts better to a warming climate than other native trees, and can handle flooding and minor droughts. The trees have straight trunks, horizontal limbs, small ...

While some flowering trees may be past their peak, gardens and hanging baskets are beginning to decorate porches and yards as May approaches.

Case study: Tallow tree, “a most useful plant.” Tallow trees (Triadica sebifera) have spade-shaped leaves with much of the same visual appeal as a gaudy flower. In spring, the new leaves grow out ...

Shai Tsur lives in Oakland, California. He's used to seeing flowers bloom in his neighborhood: pear trees, plum trees, California poppies. But not in January. This past winter was warmer than usual, ...

“Green Flowers and Herb Trees,” by Bunny Mellon, was originally published in the December 1965 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter her ...