As planting season approaches, gardeners everywhere are contemplating ways to improve their landscapes. Spirea is a remarkably versatile, low-maintenance shrub prized for its graceful, arching or ...

Can there be too many spring flowers? We don’t think so! Spring-blooming shrubs, like lilacs, rhododendrons, and forsythia, are standouts at delivering early season color and year-round garden ...

Another year, another chance to make your garden that little bit more attractive. While flowers deliver vibrant colour and vegetables earn their keep, shrubs add subtle volume, texture and interest to ...

Whether you're a fan or not, pruning is frequently an essential gardening job to keep plants neat, thriving, and looking their absolute best year after year. But if you're not keen on it or fancy ...

While there are so many plants that need pruning for them to give their full potential, there are also a fair few that "never" need pruning at all. These plants will impress with no snipping, clipping ...

Some trees and shrubs have a bad reputation for being susceptible to diseases: lilacs to powdery mildew, junipers to juniper tip blight, flowering crabapples to apple scab, and elms to Dutch elm ...

Spirea (Spiraea spp.) is a shrub that's hardy in USDA Zones 4 to 8, though some of them can tolerate a wider range of regions. There are several varieties, and depending on which one you get, they can ...

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Ask a gardener about their favorite flowering shrubs, and they might mention rhododendron, forsythia, azalea, lilac, magnolia, roses, or viburnum. These are all great shrubs, beautiful when in bloom.

Glow-in-the-dark plants bright enough to light up streets at night may sound like the stuff of science fiction or fantasy. But scientists have already made plants that emit a greenish glow. They are ...

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