whether bulbs, shrubs or perennials, are always a welcome sight. Incorporating these early bloomers is a great way to brighten up the landscape after a long barren winter.
Viburnums
On January - 8 - 2010
Viburnums are a wide ranging, popular garden shrub with over 120 varieties. Some viburnums, such as the arrowwood or maple-leaf, are ideal for the woodland garden. Others have a more formal feel such as the Korean spice or burkwood varieties and are suitable for shrub borders and specimen plants. Viburnums are a very low maintenance, easy to grow shrub which adds to their appeal.
Spring Flowering Trees, Shrubs & Perennials
On January - 2 - 2010
To start of the gardening season with color, incorporate in your design some of the following plants. Just be sure they are hardy for your zone.
Trees
Allegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis)
Bradford Pear (Pyrus calleryana)
Camelot Crabapple (Malus ‘Camzam’)
Eastern Redbuds (Cercis canadensis)
Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Higan Cherry (Prunus subhirtella)
Kwanzan Flowering Cherry (Prunus serrulata “Kwanzan”)
Little Leaf Linden (Tilia cordata)
Native American Plum (Prunus Americana)
Purple Leaf Sand Cherry (Prunus cistena)
Royalty Crabapple Tree (Malus ‘Royalty’)
Saucer Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangiana)
Star Magnolia (Magnolia stellata)
Sweetbay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
Washington Hawthornes (Crataegus phaenopyrum)
Shrubs For Acidic Soils
On December - 30 - 2009
Here in New England soils are quite acidic in part due to the pine and oak forests. When the leaves and needles of these trees break down the resulting organic matter raises the acidity of the soil. This post lists a few beautiful shrubs which are tolerant acidic soil.
Hydrangeas For The Summer Garden
On December - 28 - 2009
A common concern among gardeners is that there seems to be a lack of color in the landscape during late summer. There are, however, quite a few late blooming shrubs and hydrangeas, with their wonderful flowers, are perhaps the most beautiful.
Creating A Planting Plan
On December - 23 - 2009
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.
Witchhazel is one the earliest blooming…
On December - 22 - 2009
shrubs and provide welcome color to the landscape in late winter.
Tall evergrees, such as arborvitae,…
On December - 22 - 2009
hemlock, pine and yew, are ideal plants for windbreaks and privacy screens.
10 More Native Shrubs For The Garden
On December - 21 - 2009
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…
On December - 21 - 2009
forsythia, spirea, hydrangea, rhododendron and privet.
