Red and green are synonymous with decorating during the holiday season — and that’s partly because nature is awash in those colors this time of year. No group of plants exemplifies this better than ...

Hollies are the noblest of all evergreens and, when low winter light strikes, they radiate warmth as well as adding all-important structure to the garden. Yet hollies vary enormously, from the ...

Now is a great time to improve your winter landscape. If you’re looking to add a bright spot, try variegated false holly, an extremely tough, striking evergreen shrub, featuring brilliant cream-edged ...

With spider plant, croton, pothos, dracaena and the various ficus, variegated foliage seems to be very popular among house plants. Remember the wildly colorful variegations of coleus when it was a ...

Hollies are a common symbol of the Christmas season and a bright spot in the winter landscape. Many varieties have bright red berries, and the foliage is often used in wreaths and flower arrangements.

When plants exhibit one or several different colors in their foliage, gardeners refer to them as being variegated. We find them throughout the cultivated landscape, in trees, shrubs, grasses, and ...

WASHOUGAL, Wash. — Ken Bajema remembers picking strawberries between the rows of holly trees on his father’s farm. The strawberries are long gone, but the trees are still there. His father bought the ...

A good garden, said a friend of mine, looks ravishing every day of the year. My response was unprintable. Nowhere looks ravishing this late. Trees are bare and there will be almost no fresh flowers ...