Adding trees with red leaves to your plot is a wonderful way to introduce ornamental detail and vibrant color. Not only do they add showstopping color, but trees with red foliage create warmth ...

Many times we choose trees, shrubs and other ornamental plants for our landscapes based on the characteristics that they exhibit during the growing season. And that criterion certainly makes sense.

NO MATTER WHETHER spring is early or late, warm or disappointing, trees open their blossoms in an age-old sequence. Flowering plums, ornamental cherries, crabapples, magnolias and dogwoods hold ...

Granted, ornamental pears almost always turn some kind of really nice yellow or red color in the fall, but most of the time, that color lasts a very short time, and the leaves fall off.

Ornamental (smaller) trees I planted Mexican plum: A great native ornamental tree with fragrant spring flowers and very nice orange fall color, but it has thorns.

Tree leaves aren’t the only fall show stoppers for color, though. This is the time of year when ornamental grasses take off where the trees left off.

Although Chicago’s climate is too severe to grow the flowering dogwoods and mimosas of more southern climes, there are many outstanding ornamental trees that thrive in our climate.