Shrubs with colorful stems, interesting seed pods, or textured bark can also add depth and create a stunning winter display.

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Nut trees are typically large, lush, and perhaps best of all, provide edible harvests. This nut tree has the added benefit of easily surviving cold weather.

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This spice rack essential can be cultivated indoors under ideal conditions.

Frost cracks appear as vertical splits in the trunk of a tree and are the result of plant tissue expansion and contraction.

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The most difficult lesson which Iowans are learning is that fence-rows, grown up to prairie plants, shrubs, and some trees ...

Winter can be a difficult time for the entire landscape, and trees and shrubs are no exception. Frozen ground, drought stress ...

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Shoveling in single-digit temperatures after the colossal winter storm this weekend, I dumped mounds of snow onto my garden ...

But snow cover provides a heavy blanket of winter mulch that insulates the soil, prevents heat from escaping and keeps soil ...