Slabs of fat help give Viburnum tinus its gleam. By Veronique Greenwood Big, leafy viburnum bushes have lined yards in the United States and Europe for decades — their domes of blossoms have an ...

Winter is a great time to take stock of the garden. Are there aging plants that need replacing? Do you have an open area for a large, attractive shrub? Are you thinking about planting a hedge to ...

We have a vast palette of plants to choose from for our Northwest gardens, and in many cases they come from the same genus. The genus Pinus, for instance, includes Eastern white, Japanese white, red, ...

Viburnums have shown up on many a gardener's radar these past few years, most notably the evergreen V. tinus and the deciduous V. plicatum and V. opulus. Viburnums are great landscape shrubs - ...

Shrubs offer so much to winter gardens. Take mahonia, whose long racemes of bright yellow, pollinator-friendly flowers start ...

A quick trip to the North Carolina Arboretum this week revealed a host of eye-catching plants, but there was a clear favorite among patrons enjoying the spring blooms, as well as the early butterflies ...

The genus Viburnum contains more than 150 species of shrubs or small trees that are mostly native to temperate regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. A few of these are native to Florida.

Q: I'm disappointed that after several years my compact laurustinus simply refuses to set fruit. Someone told me I needed a male to pollinate them. Why can't I seem to find any males of this species? ...

As spring arrives, one particular shrub in my garden never fails to catch the eye of visitors. Without fail, someone will remark, “That’s the biggest hydrangea bush I’ve ever seen!” Others might say, ...

Instead of relying solely on pigments, the metallic blue fruits of Viburnum tinus use structural color to reflect blue light, a mechanism rarely seen in plants. Researchers show that the fruits use ...

Every season brings new mysteries as well as its delights. A couple of years ago it was the exceptional spring flowering of that common shrub the laurustinus, Viburnum tinus. The bushes were as ...