Sweetspire thrives in wet or dry soils, sun or shade, and is deer resistant and pollinator friendly-perfect for tough spots or naturalistic plantings. Learn more about how to grow sweetspire shrubs. Pictured: Little Henry® sweetspire from Proven Winners....
This list of the best evergreen shrubs features conical and low-growing varieties that are low maintenance and gorgeous for patios, gardens or front doors.
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Also known as fairy trumpet, rocket flower and skyrocket, scarlet gilia or Ipomopsis aggregata is a sunny native perennial that also thrives in dry, drought-prone spots. It normally grows from one to three feet tall, but can reach five feet. It produces blooms all summer long, making it a...
They are perennial herbaceous shrubs whose stems get woody as they age. In its native habitat, the plant can get up to 3 feet (1 m.) in height, but pot-grown specimens will usually be smaller. The foliage is the main reason to grow this plant. ...
Keep your gardens free of weeds. Weeds may seem small and innocent on the surface, but they can damage your flower beds. Weeds are great at sucking water and nutrients from the soil, leaving our perennials and shrubs short on what they need most to survive. Pull weeds and add mulch to ...
Dogwoods are native to North America, as well as the Far East. They are considered either small deciduous trees or shrubs. Dogwood trees are mostly deciduous but there are a fewevergreens,Cornus capitata(Evergreen Dogwood).The regional term‘flowering dogwood’is a misnomer, though, since all ...
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Beth Trapaga and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HARDY ORNAMENTAL FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS. By A.D. WEBSTER, _Author of "Practical Forestry," "Hardy Coniferous Trees," "British Orchids," &c., &c._ 1897. PREFACE
Fall coloris the result of trees or shrubs changing colors according to complex chemical formulas present in their leaves. Depending on how much iron, magnesium, phosphorus, or sodium is in the plant, and the acidity of the chemicals in the leaves, leaves might turn amber, gold, red, orange...