We often recognize dogwoods by their showy flowers, but what we call “flowers” are actually bracts, or connected, modified leaves that resemble petals. As The Southern Living Garden Book describes, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." One great thing to love about beautiful blooming trees is the welcome shade they offer come summer. In ...

Trees with vibrant spring blossoms are often at the top of gardeners’ and landscapers’ planting lists. Their popularity is likely due to the attention the flowers attract this time of year, the ...

People are complicated. The same species that brought you Thomas Kinkade also made Wassily Kandinsky world-famous. You're listening to John Coltrane while your neighbor is cranking ... what is that, ...

Like fluffy clouds at dawn, spring-flowering trees delight us with blossoms in billowing masses of sunrise colors. February and March are excellent months to add these and other types of trees to your ...

Well, they're certainly pretty right now. In much of the Eastern U.S., those Callery pear trees, also known as Bradford pears, with their white blossoms all popping out - it really makes it look like ...

If you’ve noticed flowering trees looking particularly beautiful this year, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Trees and shrubs in some parts of Michigan have been enjoying a spectacular spring bloom ...

Flowering pear trees are blooming across Lincoln, their white canopy framing Capitol Parkway and forming white clouds in Woods Park. But you could mark them all with a big red "X." Flowering pears — ...