Evergreens

Yews are one of the best evergreens for modern landscaping. Known botanically as Taxus, they range from the dwarfed varieties to those which grow 2′ to 5′ feet high, and

In recent years no evergreen has enjoyed a greater rise in popularity than the adaptable and versatile yew. For home gardens, both large and small, in the cold and warm

Growing rock plants from seed is a tricky business; in fact, it is among the most difficult of all gardener’s tasks!  Alpine seed is different from that other plants in

Masses of greenish-white florets cover Euonymus kiautschovicus in early September. In Bailey’s “Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture,” and in the 1927 edition of Rehder’s “Manual,” Euonymus kiautschovicus appeared under the gentler

It is impossible to overstate the case for junipers in home plantings. No other group of plants so well sets off today’s modern low houses and fills the gardener’s need

There are only broadleaf evergreens that I would want to recommend with qualifications for the North. The varieties listed have been grown successfully by a small number of gardeners with

In recent years, a disease, steadily increasing in severity, has ravished many pine plantings. The Austrian pine is the most seriously affected species in the Midwest, with older trees dying

In contrast to the needle evergreens, such as yew, pine, hemlock, spruce, and many others, the broad-leaved types are valued for their richly-textured foliage. Many have showy blooms, which add

Each fall, along about the first of October, several letters come to me requesting an answer to the question, “Why do my yews never have red fruit like those of

The evergreen trees described on “The Beginning Gardener” page were the kinds most often used as Christmas trees.  There are others equally useful and beautiful—yew (Taxus), cypress (Cupressus), arborvitae (Thuja),