Flowering shrubs and small flowering trees serve important roles in the landscape. Not only do they bring color and aesthetic value to homes and gardens, but they also enhance soil stability ...

Discover the best small trees for front yards, which make an impact in multiple seasons without overshadowing the rest of the yard.

Many small ornamental trees brighten the Chicago region with their spring blooms: redbuds, crabapples, serviceberries, magnolias, wild plums and many more. Cherries, not so much. The Japanese ...

With their other-worldly blossoms and attractive growing habits, these trees will become the jewels of your garden. Getty Images/Jacky Parker Photography Flowering trees make for a stunning ...

Flowering trees and shrubs are some of the best signs of spring, thanks to their surefire color each year. Whether you love big or small flowering trees, each one has the ability to envelop your ...

Small flowering trees are lovely focal points in the landscape. They can be planted fairly close to buildings (10 feet) and look especially nice by outdoor living areas. Their small size is in ...

Small flowering trees are lovely focal points in the landscape. They can be planted fairly close to buildings (10 feet) and look especially nice by outdoor living areas.

Petals are small and rounded. Pin cherry, one of several local cherry trees, holds its small white flowers in a cluster; again revealing that it is a common, but overlooked, tree.

Everyone loves stately oaks and colorful maple trees, but we often forget that it is the lower-growing, ornamental trees that unify a garden.