The lovely snowball bush (viburnum) is an asset to any sunny landscape with its lush foliage and beautifully white, round blossoms. When you successfully tend a snowball bush, you may naturally desire to propagate new bushes to spread this beauty around your landscape. Take a cutting from a s...
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Pick a location in the yard that mimics existing conditions as much as possible. The site should feature full to partial sun, good drainage and allow for further growth of the plant. Japanese holly can grow to 5 feet wide and 2 feet tall so select a permanent spot for the plant to avoi...
After planting, prune each grape plant down to one cane and then cut that single cane down in length so that just three buds remain. Attach the cane to the bottom wire with plant ties. As the plant begins to grow, keep the best shoots and trim away the others. As these canes grow, ...
Barberry (Berberis sp.) ... Delphinium (Delphinium sp.) Does weigela like sun or shade? While variegated weigelas usuallygrow best in full sun, it's also one of the better shrubs for shade, especially in particularly hot climates. You'll want to plant these shrubs in spring in moist, ...
When to Trim Barberry Bushes How to Trim Beach Roses How to Prune Iceberg Roses The first few steps in pruning roses are uniform across rose species. They involve cleanup work. Clean all dead leaves from the plant and from the ground. This is important to prevent the plant from getting fun...
Written by s •How To Grow A Pineapple The pineapple is one of thosefruitsthat splits opinions, with some loving them and some loathing them. Often the dislike comes from childhood memories of very sharp, sour fruits that many children find unpalatable. However these days there are a few ...
Alternatively, surround the perimeter of a vulnerable flowerbed or kitchen garden with dense, thorny or spiky plants.Some options:Barberry, pyracantha, roses, yucca or blackberry bushes. As for “safe” crops, small mammals are less inclined to raid onions, artichokes, asparagus and cucumbers—aga...
Buying plants for your garden, anything from a load of hedging bushes to a single perennial, always has a little bit of nervousness with it. The newer you are to gardening, the more nervous about your purchase you are likely to be. “Will they grow?”“What do I need to do?”“How...
“But the stiltgrass started to grow, and so that summer, it was like a treasure hunt, looking for the little fern plugs in amongst the two-feet-tall stilt grass,” Barton says. She again weeded the stiltgrass out by hand, and in the third year, the 1,000-square-foot space had ...