Heavenly Bamboo is a beautiful and useful landscape plant with a bad reputation. Unfortunately, this plant has very invasive tendencies when grown outside of its native range. Sterile varieties are available that provide year-round interest but gardeners in the USA are advised to consider planting alternative shrub species. Read on to learn more about this […]
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The pussy willow is most famous for its catkin-covered branches produced in the late winter or early spring. These handsome plants can be very useful in the garden, especially in problem areas with saturated soils. Read on to learn how to grow and care for this attractive deciduous shrub or tree. What Is A Pussy
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Carissa is a great hedging or groundcover plant for coastal areas in Florida, California, and other warm places throughout the globe. This evergreen grows fast, needs little care, and produces deep green foliage, attractive fragrant orange blossoms, and edible fruit. Read on to learn more about growing and caring for these under-used plants. What Is
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If you live in a naturally hot and dry climate and are looking for an interesting low-maintenance plant for your garden, the creosote bush might be a perfect choice. These characteristic desert plants of the American Southwest are easy to grow where many other plants can’t. Read on to learn how to grow and care
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Potentilla is a compact and reliably showy shrub that needs very little attention from the gardener. It is a very cold hardy plant with a long flowering period that adds cheer to your garden. Read on to learn how to grow and care for this versatile plant. What Is A Potentilla? Potentilla is a deciduous
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Ninebark, Physocarpus opulifolius, is a wonderful native shrub that provides year-round interest, even though it is deciduous. This low-maintenance plant is incredibly cold hardy which makes it a great plant for cold northern gardens all the way down to zone 2. Read on to learn more about growing and caring for this versatile shrub. What
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The mock orange bush is a fantastic addition to gardens in zones 4 to 7. Although they don’t exactly steal the show for much of the year, they are very showy and fragrant when in flower. Read on to learn more about these popular deciduous shrubs. What Is A Mock Orange? The mock orange plant
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Ligustrum plants, or privets as they are often known, are popular garden plants that come with one major disadvantage. These plants have proven to be highly invasive where they are grown outside of their native range. Fortunately, not all species are equally invasive and at least one seedless cultivar has been developed to solve this
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Japanese andromeda is a highly ornamental and showy flowering shrub or small tree that has many uses in the garden. With so many different cultivars available, there’s a Japanese pieris for just about anyone. If there’s one downside to this plant, however, it’s that it has some highly toxic properties. Nevertheless, this is a great
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Cotoneasters are a large group of plants that show a lot of variation but make great garden subjects for a wide range of different applications. These plants are showy, easy to grow, and require little maintenance. Read on for an introduction to the genus and general information on their care. What Is A Cotoneaster? Cotoneasters
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