If you’re a gardener with a lot of shade around your home, you may find yourself struggling to find plants that thrive in minimal sunlight, especially when it comes to shrubs. Take a look at the shaded areas of your yard. Just because they are dark, does not mean they have to be ...
Sun Exposure: Partial shade Plant Zone: 10 – 11 Fuchsia shrubs produce show-stopping flowers that dangle downwards from their stems. Depending on the variety, its flowers may have a single or double layer, often with two-tone colors. Fuchsias are one of the best flowering bushes on this ...
Here are the Best Texas Flowering Shrubs that are perfectly suited to be grown in the similar areas! From the lovely Texas sage to the beautiful Forsythia, these Texas Flowering Shrubs are tailor-made for the Lone Star State’s unique climate and soil. Table of contents Texas Flowering Shrubs...
I relish plants that produce fragrant flowers. Philadelphus aren’t the most memorable group of plants for ten or eleven months of the year, but while they’re in flower, these shrubs perfume the garden with their intoxicating and deliciously sweet scent. Philadelphus Philadelphus are a genus of...
My Rose of Sharon shrubs are planted on the back side of my clematis pergola facing what I call my Party Lawn, where I love to entertain during summer. Rose of Sharon shrubs can grow to about eight to 10 feet tall with a spread of four to six feet. When planting, be sure to space...
While some of the shrubs in our list grow up to 10 feet vertically, bonanza does that horizontally. A healthy plant can take up a space of 8 feet squared while being almost 6 feet tall. The flowers are also something to write home about. With their lush red blooms and deep yellow stam...
Viburnumxbodnantensewill grow in most soils, in sun or partial shade.Prune established plantsin spring after flowering, cutting back one in every five old stems to ground level to encourage new growth. Hamamelis(witch hazel) These deciduous shrubs can get fairly large, so they’re best in big...
This perennial makes a perfect low-border plant for your sunny gardens in front of shrubs or taller perennials. When the first batch of flowers begins to fade, cut the plant back, and you will get a resurgence of growth that will last into the fall. ...
We're calling it: flowering maple (Abutilon x hybridum) is the plant that will win your heart this month. Mother nature showered these easy-care shrubs with every possible blessing: arching branches, lovely lobed leaves, and papery blossoms that just keep coming. If we had to vote for our...
berry vines, you'll find a surprising variety of deciduous landscaping plants--shade trees, flowering ornamental trees and shrubs, and a few fast-growing vines--at bargain prices.Some of the best values are fast-growing deciduous shade trees such as alder, birgh, fruitless mulberry, and ...