If planted close, 2 to 3 feet apart, the shrub is ideal for creating a privacy wall. A low-maintenance tree, it likes full sun to partial shade and well-drained, moist soil, and it is drought and frost tolerant. The self-pollinating tree produces large white blooms surrounding smaller wh...
Log piles: Piles of rotting wood in the form of log piles or stacks of brash, such as the prunings from a renovation prune of a favourite shrub, can be placed in shady corners to accommodate myriad invertebrates, including stag beetles. Despite their scary appearance and erratic bumbling flig...