"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Flowering shrubs aren't just for adding beauty to your garden. They're wonderful attractors of important ...

Whether you're growing shrubs for privacy, to add height to a garden space, to cover or hide an unsightly structure, or simply for the heck of it, a flowering shrub can be an easy way to get the best ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. An evergreen flowering ...

Traditionally, weigela is known as a dense shrub with pink flowers that blooms in spring. The flowers may reappear in summer. New cultivars are available that produce more blooms in many different ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Spring is finally here! Everywhere you look, one can find some spring color around. Some of the first plants to peek out of the ground are spring-flowering bulbs like crocus, ...

The gap between a basic yard and a show-stopping garden isn't about money or space, but about choosing plants that actually perform. While your neighbors fuss over lawn stripes and sprinkler timers, ...

Witch hazel has scented flowers that can be vivid orange, yellow or red, standing out on any grey January day. Plants such as ...

It sounds rather heartless to say that we manipulate plants rather than allow them to behave naturally. But that’s really what happens when we create a garden. Few of our plants are precisely the same ...

As well as producing flowers at a time of year when any and every fragile bloom is to be treasured, trees and shrubs provide structure to the winter garden. This can come in the form of loose outlines ...

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