Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 4, page two continuation
I love the mopheads for their exuberance and color, but the lace cap forms are adored for their intricacy and understated sheer elegance. One of mine is It's a suckering shrub that has put up with no end of neglect, abuse and deer munching and ... [... more]
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Flowering Shrubs
Shrubs are the primary occupant of our gardens and far from being simply a leafy plant. In some gardens, most of the flowers are those that appear on shrubs. The possibilities of planting combinations and mixtures are endless. You should choose ... [... more]
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Viburnums: Flowering Shrubs for Every Season
 Author: Michael A. Dirr Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 635.93392 EAN: 9780881928532 ISBN: 0881928534 Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: 2007-09-01 [... more]
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Favorite Flowering Shrubs (The Canadian Garden Collection)
Book contains invasive weeds which should not be planted: I have not read this undoubtedly excellent book, but at least one of the shrubs in it is a serious invasive weed in the Northeast and Upper Midwest of the US. This plant is Lonicera tatarica. [... more]
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Flower Power!
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Dictionary of Plant Names: Botanical Names and Their ...
What Is the Origin of that Plant's Name?: Have you ever been curious about the origin of a plant's botanical name? How and why it got the name and what on earth it has to do with the plant? That's the type of information contained in this easy-to-use [... more]
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 9 - Viburnum
Whether native to eastern or western hemispheres, there is a Viburnum for every garden Whether native to eastern or western hemispheres, there is a viburnum for every garden. The similarity between species found in North America and those found ... [... more]
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 6
There are many species of Hydrangea for our shady gardens. Hydrangea quercifolia is one that I have and love; H. paniculata is one that I want. If you have access to hydrangeas - yours or someone else's - it's easy to propagate them by ... [... more]
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Probably the most rewarding of all flowering shrubs
Azaleas, for months every year, paint exquisite pictures in glowing purples, the gentlest of reds, pinks, whites, and two-colours. They can also be either single, double or anemone centred in their form. They are a favourite of my wife and that ... [... more]
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 7 - Viburnum
There's a Viburnum for every garden. Many offer sweetly scented flowers, colorful berries and fall color. What more can you want from a shrub? There's a Viburnum for every garden from USDA zones 3 to 9. Some are evergreen or partially so, but ... [... more]
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 4
Hydrangeas belong to the hydrangea family, Hydrangeaceae, which also contains shrubs like Deutzia, the woody vine, Schizophragma, and herbaceous perennials like Kirengeshoma. I have also seen it listed as belonging to the family Saxifragaceae, ... [... more]
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 3
Old-fashioned plants are survivors. In most cases, they're the plants who require very little from the gardener to keep on growing, thriving and blooming. It's for the very features that are denigrated by the plant snob set that I value some of ... [... more]
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