Don't be fooled by the chic look of the tassel-like blooms on Chinese fringe flowers (Loropetalum)! These plants are a wonderful choice for beginner gardeners, due to their low-maintenance nature.

In February, you can already spot the first signs of the approaching spring. Delicate buds form on branches, and some early ...

Fringe tree, or Old Man's Beard, (Chionanthus virginicus) has always played twelfth fiddle to dogwood, saucer magnolia, flowering cherry, Bradford pear, and numerous others choices for ...

Given the hard freeze of last week, many of us will be outside pruning our damaged tropicals. (For frozen landscape repair, see last week's column.) But while we're outside with the shears, there are ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Some of the questions that I get asked quite frequently are “Are my trees ok?”, “Do I need to have an arborist come work on my trees?”, and “Is there anything I can do to help ...