Plants can make the area around your house look great, but choose the wrong ones, and you might be setting yourself up for some big issues later on. From cracked foundations to mold buildup and even ...

Like non-native vines and trees, invasive shrubs can take over a landscape quickly. “Invasive shrubs have a high reproductive capacity by seeds or roots and are tolerant of growing in a wide range of ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Two of Pennsylvania’s top-selling landscape plants – Japanese barberries and flowering pear trees – soon won’t be sold now that the state Department of Agriculture is phasing them out of sale in ...

The invasion of trees and plants by exotic vines and other climbing plants can often result in the suffocation and death of mature trees and plants. They also increase the danger of canopy fires and ...