Q: I took your recommendation and planted a Dapple Dandy pluot and Santa Rosa plum in the same hole about 18 inches apart. New growth has already started to appear. I’d now like to cut and lower ...

Whatever you plant in place of the red-tip photinia, look for shrubs that will work well in your landscape and avoid invasive, disease-prone, or foul-smelling plants at the nursery.

Photinia is an evergreen shrub that may make an attractive addition to your garden. The new growth of leaves is bright red; the flowers are clusters of small, white blossoms. There are several ...

A: Photinia will grow here but it will not do well after a few years of growing in rock mulch or in a very hot part of the landscape. Photinia needs to have organic mulch around it to do well and ...

The reason is that, 40 years ago, photinia was planted by the millions in the metro Atlanta area. Homeowners sheared them in winter so the striking red new growth would emerge in spring.

M.B.: I know of nothing that works to keep Photinia leaves blight-free, but before I gossip maliciously about how ugly and acne-prone this popular landscape shrub has become, readers, please chime ...

We recently had our garden landscaped and it was all planted at the end of January. 3 photinia red robins were planted against our fence and they were fairly established (about 6 feet tall).

The Japanese euonymus is another considered to be among the best evergreen plants for a small garden, not least of all because it can be used to illuminate areas that may need brightening up.

I have a mixed evergreen border between my front yard and the road. A combination of red cedar, pine and arborvitae, this hedge is also dotted with photinia. Late April ...

In the Garden Q: We’ve never had any problem or disease with our established Photinia hedge until last year. The leaves developed brown spots and then most of them dropped off. Can we save ...