The gardenia likes high humidity. To increase humidity, place the potted gardenia on a shallow tray with gravel and water. Water will evaporate and increase the relative humidity around the plant. Alternatively, place a humidifier close to the plant or mist the leaves often with water. Types Sm...
It does have some prickly thorns so you won’t want to plant it close to where people could walk into it. But it rarely requires pruning so they shouldn’t be much of an issue there. It’s also a really tough plant that’s drought tolerant, easy to grow and resists deer (those tho...
I always try to plant native trees and shrubs when I can for many reasons ranging from their durability and beauty to the ultimate survival of the human species (for more on this read My Thanksgiving Oak Forest). So you can imagine how happy I was to find a source for native American ...
Use a more aggressive rejuvenation pruning technique if your shrub is badly overgrown and you want quick results. For this approach, you'll want to cut off all the old branches at or close to ground level. This may mean cutting away almost all of the plant, leaving very little behind. Yo...
s real oddities. This woodland native is shaped like a small rounded tree and grows to about 6 feet tall. It blooms in late April here, with tiny yellow brush-like flowers–a charming companion to the shade garden’s minor bulbs and little ephemerals. I got my first plant at the New ...
And we’re going to make some more shrubs. But in a recent Times column a couple of weeks ago, I did that one about making more houseplants, because I had read on Instagram as I think you and I talked about offline, about the guy @houseplantjournal, Darryl Cheng, how he had used ...
Mostly because they are based out of Hodges, SC which is about an hour drive from my house. And they used to have an annual end-of-season plant sale where you could get some real deals! (They haven’t held it consistently for the last couple of years, but if you live in the area...
You should not plant this over your drainfield nor close to it. Normally we keep such plants well away from the septic drainfield - a distance greater than the expected canopy diameter which often predicts the minimum horizontal roof spread. The plant is said to grow to > 9m in height ...
Some thought it was a forsythia that got it's dates mixed up, but it is witch hazel, properly known as a Hamamelis, and about the earliest blooming plant in our area. You have to get up close to appreciate and admire the twirly little blossoms. This is probably Hamamelis mollis, a ...
although you can prune it to 2 or 3 feet off the ground if your plant is diseased. It will take a couple of years to grow back, but this should give you a nice, full shrub. Mountain laurel is flammable, so you want to keep trim any mountain laurel shrubs growing near your house....