They may be pretty, but invasive shrubs crowd out native plants and ruin local ecosystems in your backyard. Keep these ...

As the snow falls, trees and shrubs in your landscape can suffer. Here are some tips to help prevent damage to your plants.

Winter doesn’t mean your garden has to look bare and lifeless. While most plants hunker down for the cold season, certain ...

Trees in hedges help with habitat provision and carbon storage, bringing diversity and resilience to the farmed landscape, while providing continuity when hedges are being managed. For farmers and ...

We talk a lot about how native plants are great choices for our landscapes, but one of our native plants — a tree to be exact — we don’t hear much about is the hedge apple. In fact, I don’t remember ...

In addition to lending shade and visual appeal to your yard, a healthy green hedge can make it feel more secluded. In most cases, the best plants for privacy hedges are easy to maintain and ...

Benjamin Franklin famously advised, "Love your neighbor, yet don’t pull down your hedge." Unfortunately, hedges have generally been pulled down to make way for fences and walls; hard barriers that are ...

Each year in mid- to late October, the OSU Extension office fields questions about hedge apples, an oddity of nature which seem to fall from the sky in autumn. These large and heavy fruits with an odd ...

Order trees from Winnebago County’s annual sale by Feb. 25. Choose evergreens, shade trees, shrubs, and specialty packs.