Fast-growing plants have their benefits, but with these evergreens, there are also drawbacks. From being disease-prone to invasive, these are the ones to avoid.

While fences can be attractive, they can also be expensive and create a feeling of being enclosed in your yard. Instead of building a fence to add privacy and security to your property, you can try ...

Trees just can't be beat for providing shade in the yard and creating a relaxing and lushly green atmosphere. When you're starting with a bare yard that lacks trees, it can be tempting to ignore the ...

I lost a large oak tree to storms not long ago and want to replace with a native pine, prefer one that grows quickly. Tolerance to drought would be a plus. What are the possibilities? Missouri only ...

A typical farmer must wait a year or two to see how a new crop variety works out. Imagine if the crop was trees. An experiment with Ponderosa pine trees has run more than a generation and turned up ...