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HGTV's Erin Napier, co-host of the Southern renovation show "Home Town," is no stranger to big landscape fixes, and in a season nine episode, a pondside cottage project had some of the messiest trees ...

Maple trees are hard to beat when it comes to colorful displays. The sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is so well-loved for its vibrant hues that it's considered the state tree for more states than any ...

Chilopsis linearis, the desert willow or desert catalpa, is prized in dry gardens for its showy, fragrant blossoms which cover the tree in summer. When many native bloomers are past their spring glory ...