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When ornamental grasses are in their prime in landscapes across North America each fall, questions pour in to our feedback line. Do you have a question about grasses, too? Here’s a list of the most commonly asked questions about their traits, uses and growing conditions.
Leaves get all the credit for making autumn beautiful, but berries are no slouch at bringing a whole new range of colors, forms, and interest to the landscape. However, lots of gardeners miss out on the unique feature of berries because the plants that create them don’t look like much during the prime spring shopping season at garden centers. Here’s your chance to change that! Adding these shrubs that have beautiful fruit to your planting list will ensure an even more colorful autumn next year and beyond.
Think of any spot in your garden and there’s likely an ornamental grasses selection to fit. This versatile group of plants suits all sorts of uses in landscapes and containers, making landscaping with ornamental grasses both practical and beautiful, even in water gardens and ornamental grasses for containers. Though most prefer quite a bit of sunshine, some grasses can handle filtered shade. Let’s take a look at five ways on how to use ornamental grasses in your garden this season.
Heuchera, commonly called coral bells, are easy to grow and thrive in zones 4-9. Dolce® and Primo® varieties were bred from native North American species and provide colorful foliage all season. Some also produce pretty sprays of airy flowers in early summer.
When we see beautiful flowers, our instinct propels us to pull them in closer for a sniff, even when we know they don’t have a fragrance. We love scented blooms not only for the perfume they exude but because of the nostalgic memories they can evoke. Bees enjoy them, too. Let’s take a closer look at how you can embrace fragrance to the fullest in your garden.
Stripes, speckles and pinwheels, oh my! Patterned flowers are the life of the party in modern container recipes. They instantly transform a container from humdrum to absolutely fabulous. Check out our most popular patterned Superbells®, Supertunia® and Superbena® flowers and learn how to grow them successfully.
When you head to the garden center this spring, you’ll find more patterned flowers than ever before. All those stripes, speckles and pinwheels are dazzling but it takes a little know-how to pair them with other flowers in container recipes. Here are five creative ways to design spectacular container recipes using patterned flowers.
Any garden can look great in spring or summer, but it takes real preparation and research to have a garden that looks great in fall and winter. It also takes discipline: garden centers are always stocked with shrubs for cut branches that look fabulous at that moment, making those that don’t come into their own much later in the season easily pass by.
However, it pays off to always add a few shrubs to your landscape that will look wonderful when the rest of the garden is fading. And it pays off dividends to pick plants that make great cut branches in fall and winter, giving you the chance to create your own unique arrangements and décor during the holidays and beyond.
Here are shrubs – for fall or winter – that look great in the garden, in the vase, and more. While they may not be at their most exciting in spring, when the temperature drops and things start to get gloomy, you’ll be mighty glad you added them to your planting list among the best shrubs for fall and winter.
Putting the flowers in flowering shrubs has always been our mission – and these plants epitomize that. These reblooming shrubs bloom once along with conventional varieties, then they go on to bloom again, or to keep blooming, through the season. If you are looking to add flowers, and plenty of them, to your landscape, especially shrubs that bloom all summer, take your pick of these ten favorites. All have been trialed and proven to be outstanding in the field, and in your garden, making them some of the best long blooming flowering shrubs available today.
Getting a good looking, colorful winterberry holly is as simple as having the right male....
