Pieris are easy-to-grow and cold-hardy evergreen shrubs with dark fingered foliage that is attractive all year round. This plant (also known as the andromeda bush or the lily-of-the-valley bush) ...

I read that spring flowering shrubs should be pruned soon after they are through blooming. Why can’t I wait until fall to prune after they have made their growth for the year? Spring flowering shrubs ...

For sheer beauty, not much competes with azaleas, dogwoods, cherries and redbuds at this time of year. But I think one lesser-known shrub could join them if only it were planted more often in Piedmont ...

What: Smothered in snow-white flowers, Pieris japonica “White Cascade” is a herald of spring. When in full bloom, one can hardly see the delicate evergreen foliage hidden beneath the trusses of ...

What: Pieris japonica “Brookside Miniature” is a dwarf columnar lily-of-the-valley shrub with all great qualities of its larger siblings. In late winter to early spring, clusters of urn-shaped white ...