welcome shade during the hot summer months and allow the sun to shine through in the winter.
In colder climates, protect roses…
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by covering their base with mulch or salt marsh hay.
Spend winters sharpening tools, researching…
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new plants you may want to use in the garden and browsing garden design books for new ideas.
Creating A Planting Plan
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Often gardeners plants on impulse, without a overall garden plan, only to realize later that there is nowhere in the garden to place the new plants. Having a planting plan helps. There are a few factors to consider before buying plants for your garden. It is important to carefully analyze the existing conditions of your garden. Check to see how much sun and shade it gets, whether the soil is well or poorly drained and whether your garden is exposed to winter winds. Knowing these conditions is important and will help inform your plant selections.
Planting And Selecting Trees
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Before planting new trees, determine both your needs and the existing conditions of your site. Remember that many trees grow quickly and continue to grow for many years. Once a tree is planted and begins to establish itself, it won’t be easy to transplant so be sure to work from a garden plan.
Designing A Year-Round Garden
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An ideal garden design is one which offers something during every season. In spring and summer, ornamental trees and flower beds are full of colorful blooms. Vibrant foliage adds beauty to the fall landscape and in the winter the berries, evergreens and bark color provide color. Also important in the winter is the silhouette of trees and shrubs.
Witchhazel is one the earliest blooming…
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shrubs and provide welcome color to the landscape in late winter.
Tall evergrees, such as arborvitae,…
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hemlock, pine and yew, are ideal plants for windbreaks and privacy screens.
10 More Native Shrubs For The Garden
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Native shrubs are among some of the easiest to grow, useful and most beautiful plants available to the gardener. This list of native shrubs for the garden is a continuation of a previous post on the same subject.
Lowbush Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) blooms in spring with white flowers. Flowers are followed by blue berries, which ripen in summer and attract wildlife. Lowbush blueberry has lustrous blue-green leaves that turn bronze & scarlet in fall. It grows well in dry, acid, nutrient poor soil.
Some easy to grow shrubs include…
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forsythia, spirea, hydrangea, rhododendron and privet.
