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) ...

Pieris japonica a.k.a the lily-of-the-valley shrub or Japanese andromeda is a favourite spring-flowering bush in many coastal gardens. Native to Japan, it grows 3 to 4 m (9 to 12 feet) high and ...

My first spring catalog has come. The excitement at our house is at a winter high — thinking of all of the green that comes with spring and the opportunities to add to my landscape. I have marked ...

One of my favorite plants on my shady, deer-ravaged property is a Japanese andromeda. It lives where many a bush has died. Plus, it's beautiful, especially in early spring when it is covered with ...

If you’re looking for a rather slow-growing foundation shrub to add to your landscaping, you may be interested in purchasing a Pieris japonica, native to Japan and commonly called Japanese andromeda.

WHAT: Pieris japonica is a tried-and-true, all-season wonder in Northwest gardens. There are nine varieties of the plant, also known as the lily-of-the-valley shrub, on the Great Plant Picks list, ...

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 ...

Dress up your porch or patio with gorgeous evergreen shrubs perfect for winter containers. The key to fabulous winter containers is evergreen foliage, but evergreen doesn't have to mean just green.

Pieris is widely known as 'flame of the forest', an attractive and easily remembered name, and it was only when this name gained general currency a few decades ago that this wonderful shrub began to ...

GINA PARKINSON welcomes a relatively hardy shrub which comes into its own in the spring. APRIL is one of the busiest times of the year, with plenty of seed sowing and preparation to be done during the ...

Winter can feel like nature’s way of hitting the snooze button. Frosty mornings, bare trees, and endless shades of gray often ...