A small shady backyard doesn’t mean you can’t have a beautiful garden. Here are small evergreen plants for shade: use them to ...

Yerba mate is an herbal tea that’s made by steeping the twigs and dried leaves of the Ilex paraguariensis plant in hot water. The tea is traditionally served in a gourd and sipped through a ...

The nonprofit group Wild Ones offers a free library of designs, with plants specific to your area — and you don’t have to be ...

Deciduous. Showy, droopy clusters of fragrant white blossoms before leaves appear in spring. Females bear blue-black fruit. Likes part shade, moist soil. Possumhaw holly (Ilex decidua).

The days may be shorter and darker, but there are still vivid pleasures to be found in the garden, from roses to doughty ...

Autumn time often means a big tidy-up in the garden but spare a thought for the wildlife that needs our help in the shorter ...

For over two decades, we have devoted our efforts to developing and refining a multispecies integrated agroforestry system for the sustainable cultivation of Ilex paraguariensis ... and renews leaves, ...

Gardeners use foundation plants in the front of a house to help it blend in with its natural surroundings while hiding the not-so-attractive foundation itself. Foundation plants provide a pop of color ...

Consider a wreath of fall leaves for your front door ... for a shady space could be created in the form of the Carex 'Ice Dance', which when cozied up to Ilex crenata (Japanese Holly) balls, creates a ...