When deciding on the best privacy plants for your landscape, you'll want to consider three characteristics of the type of hedge you're eyeing. Our experts walk you through the decision-making process.

You can plant a hedge any time of year, but winter and early spring are the ideal times for planting bare-root deciduous ...

Fine out why mixed-species hedgerows are becoming so popular and how you can create one at home ...

Fences make good neighbors and so do hedges ... as long as they are done well. Hedges are the workhorses of the suburban garden. They define space. As superstars of the backdrop, they set the mood and ...

For the centuries that gardening has been popular, the hedge has been the greatest of the unheralded champions of the art. Useful for defining garden rooms, channeling a view, providing an essential ...

A beautiful hedge offers many benefits to a home garden. A wall of green can be a barrier between your space and the outside world, can define a space in your landscape, will dampen road noise, can ...

Because more people are staying home and enjoying their outdoor space, there has been an increase in interest in hedging plants to create privacy and also to define different parts of the landscape. A ...

Trimming hedges keeps them neat and perfectly manicured hedges can perfectly frame a garden. Whether your hedges act as borders, provide much-needed privacy in urban areas, or are more decorative for ...

In gardens, the golden rule is ‘things never quite work out’ — and today’s climatic vicissitudes demand a balanced strategy.

Your plants will benefit too ...

In the fall of 2020, with generous underwriting from The Gentlemen of the Garden, the Preservation Foundation planted an experimental demonstration hedge of native trees and shrubs. Now that the ...

Jim Putnam is the plant expert from the Southern Living Plant Collection. Mary Phillips is the head of native plant habitat strategy/certifications at the National Wildlife Federation. Janet Sluis is ...