Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

Fast-growing trees can add character and color to your home's landscape relatively quickly, but those varieties often require full sun to add height so quickly. However, there are plenty of ...

Who wouldn't love to grow a mini orchard housing diverse fruit trees to keep us and the pretty birds visiting our backyards satiated year-round. Sadly, with even the youngest seedlings costing over ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you’ve been nurturing flowers and vegetables in your garden, you may be ready to move on to growing ...

Fruit trees. Consider planting a guava tree. Make sure it’s a tropical guava (Psidium guajava) and not a pineapple guava (Feijoa sellowiana) or a strawberry guava (Psidium callleianum). The latter two ...

Growing guava in a pot is an excellent way to enjoy fresh, tropical fruit even if you live in an apartment. Guava trees adapt surprisingly well to containers, staying compact while still producing ...