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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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 5
When shady gardens are in the summer doldrums, hydrangeas come to the rescue. They are the perfect shrub for shady gardens with two species particularly suited to gardens in cold climates . One of these, Hydrangea arborescens, is featured in this ... [... more]
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 6, Continued
Prechilling (cold stratification) means sowing the seed, either in pots or plastic baggies of damp seeding compost - or even in layers of damp paper towel - and subjecting it to the required temperature. This can be done in the refrigerator or by ... [... more]
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 1
Woody plants are the backbone of a garden - the bones - providing form the year around. While evergreens make a strong winter statement and can create a glorious show of flowers in their season, deciduous shrubs are not to be overlooked - ... [... 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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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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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 8 - Viburnum
Most viburnums have simple, oval or elliptical leaves with fine teeth on the edges. Three species have much different leaves. Two of them are quite similar, except for one odd difference. Most viburnums have simple, oval or elliptical leaves with ... [... more]
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