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While lots of people are talking about it these days, gardening for pollinators – insects, birds, and even bats that feed on the nectar, pollen, and leaves for plants - isn’t just a trend, especially when incorporating shrubs for pollinators into your landscape. It’s central to plants’ roles in our ecosystem. If you don’t get the appeal of attracting pollinators to your landscape, planting one of these ten shrubs for pollinators will make you a convert. Each one is beautiful, easy to grow, and ranks among the best shrubs for pollinators, while the pollinators they bring in will add another layer of excitement to the floral display.
Or better yet, try more than one, layering in pollinator friendly shrubs for all seasons, to invite nature’s visitors to your home for months each year.
Clay soil—for many it presents a real challenge in the garden. Though there are lots of ways to improve its texture and drainage, make it easy on yourself and choose to grow plants that naturally thrive in clay soils. Here’s a closer look at ten perennials for clay, shown in order of their bloom times.
Let’s think beyond the obvious and liven up our gardens and public spaces with bountiful containers filled with cool weather loving plants for fall. These striking plants offer seasonal color, rich texture and an unexpected twist on traditional autumn displays.
Blue is beautiful! It’s also not quite as rare in the garden as some people might think, especially when it comes to blue flowering shrubs. You’ll find fabulous flowers, foliage, and even fruit in blue hues that make these some of the best blue shrubs to add a touch of cool and refreshing color to your garden or landscape. Blue goes with just about any exterior color, including red and orange brick, and plays nicely with other plants as well, making them ideal blue shrub for landscaping. When in doubt about how to accentuate your landscape, just go blue!
Summer is the time to enjoy the fruits of your spring labor and have fun in the garden. While you’re at it, keep up on these 10 basic summer gardening tasks and your plants will reward you by growing and blooming strong all the way through fall.
Flowers may come and go, but fabulous foliage is hard at work every single day bringing beauty and color to shady garden spaces. Some plants with fun foliage act as a backdrop for flashier flowering plants while others steal the show all on their own. Here are twenty of our best shade-tolerant annuals, perennials and shrubs that offer season-long color in containers and landscapes.
You’ve seen gorgeous container recipes in pictures, but how do you get that look? It takes some time to learn how to design container combinations like a pro, but we have a few key tips that will prompt a successful start. Let’s take a look at five guidelines for choosing container companions.
Essential elements for plant nutrition include nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, zinc, copper, molybdenum, magnesium, iron, sulfur, manganese and boron. They come from the soil and from applied fertilizer. Plants obtain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from the air or through the soil.
Supporting pollinators ranks high among gardeners’ concerns and we agree—we all need to do what we can to provide a beneficial habitat, food and shelter for these critical creatures with pollinator friendly perennials. Let’s take a look at ten perennials for bees and more you can grow to provide beauty and sustenance in your garden.
“Why isn’t my plant showing any signs of life when everything else in my yard is?” you start to wonder. “Is it dead?”
