A: The unique foliage and bright yellow flowers in early spring certainly make this a distinctive plant. Spikes of blue berries follow the flowers. Some gardeners don't like mahonia because of its ...

Whenever someone says yellow flowers and winter time in the same sentence, I immediately think of forsythia or mahonia as the two most likely choices (yes, witch hazel has yellow flowers but they are ...

On the first day of spring, the fourth nor’easter in three weeks moved up the Eastern Seaboard and blanketed Reagan National Airport in D.C. with the most snow in 50 years. We didn’t get anything here ...

In some of the older woodland gardens around the Florida panhandle, you will likely find a five to seven-foot plant called leatherleaf mahonia (Mahonia bealei). The holly-like foliage is spiky and ...

The leatherleaf mahonia has much to recommend it. To begin with, its broad evergreen leaves provide color for the landscape the year around. The plant reaches relatively massive proportions as its ...

MAHONIAS got their name from an Irish nurseryman, Bernard McMahon, who settled in Philadelphia in the 18th century. His business became a centre for American gardeners, where everyone, from Thomas ...

ahonia, a member of the Barberry family, is a distinctive evergreen shrub that’s native to North and Central America, as well as eastern Asia. Although related to barberries, mahonias don’t have those ...

If the world had aligned properly and I had been born a trust-fund baby, I would be writing this from the cabana of a beach house in a place where the January temperature hovers around 80. Hawaii, or ...

Magnolia soulangeana, commonly called saucer or tulip magnolia, tulip tree and Japanese is a hybrid magnolia resulting from a cross of Magnolia denudata and Magnolia liliflora is not the smartest ...

Gardeners are always looking for something interesting for their winter garden, and that is doubly true for shady locations. One tough customer that fits that bill is Mahonia, an evergreen shrub ...