Q: I have embankment on the north side of a building. Its about 4 feet high, 10 feet wide and 50 feet long. I would like to plant something maintenance-free all year long something evergreen maybe.

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It’s great to be able to recommend a group of plants that are easy to grow, thrive in shade, are drought tolerant once established, and seem to present no interest to deer. Mahonia is a large genus of ...

When we see how quickly the soil dries out under the hot sun, it can be easy to assume that spaces in shade will stay moist. In fact, some shady areas tend to be dry, too. “Dry shade is one of the ...

When Kathleen Salisbury worked in a garden center, lots of customers asked for plants with four-season interest. Most of them equated that with evergreens. Salisbury, now director of Temple University ...

After an extraordinary fall, when plants stayed green halfway into November, we've finally reached winter, when leaves are gone, grass is brown and remnants of garden flowers are black from frost.