Your first thoughts of shrubs for your home are probably of staples such as hollies or viburnums and showy bloomers such as azaleas or camellias. Those are great choices, but I want you to consider ...

WHAT: Plum yew, also known as cowtail pine or cephalotaxus harringtonia, is an unusual conifer that is rarely encountered in the landscape. Its flat, deep, dark green needles are 1½ to 2 inches long ...

I’d like to introduce you to a different kind of evergreen groundcover that may fill a niche in your landscape. If you are originally from more northern parts of the U.S., you are no doubt familiar ...

Plum yew, Cephalotaxus prostrata is a shade loving, slow growing evergreen conifer. While yew is a name more commonly associated with the genus Taxus, Cephalotaxus has slightly larger and wider ...

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Japanese plum yew offers solutions to many landscape problems: deep shade, evergreen, groundcover, deer resistant, drought-resistant, takes pruning, needs little pruning, clay soils, heat-tolerant, ...

Q: Recently I discovered a plant that was new to me in a local garden shop – it’s an evergreen shrub called Yewtopia. I looked it up on the internet and what I saw was mostly from the nursery that is ...

A fruit tree or shrub which grows quite well in our area is the pomegranate (Punica granatum), which makes a small, shrubby plant to about 15 feet tall with multiple stems. John Walker Fresno Bee Q: I ...

I'm looking for suggestions for shrubs in a shady and dry area. Are any viburnums suitable for shade? I have an area I am trying to give a natural, woodsy look. I also was thinking of a holly or a ...

The flower buds of a Gongshan plum yew. PIAN LI/FOR CHINA DAILY The first batch of artificially bred Gongshan plum yews were reintroduced to the wild at Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve in ...

Your first thought for shrubs for your home is probably the staples like hollies or viburnums and showy bloomers like azaleas or camellias. Those are great choices, but I want you to consider using ...