Scotch heather: antidote to gray skies
Just as demand grows with diminished supply, never are garden flowers more eagerly sought than at this time of year. As skies get grayer and temperatures drop, the sun rises ever lower in the sky and...
Category Archives: Shrubs
Silverberrry: Abe Lincoln of Plants
Imagine a plant that produces fragrant flowers and edible fruit, grows in sun or shade, tolerates heat, wind and ocean spray, requires a scant amount of water and never needs to be fertilized. As if ...
Why prune shrubs anyway?
To prune or not to prune, that is the question. Especially now, as cool weather sets in, people want to know if this is the right time to prune their plants. Fertilizing, watering and weeding are sud...
The Power of Shrubs
For years, shrubs have been going out of style. Flowering perennials have gradually taken their place. This is not because perennials are more durable than shrubs. In fact, the opposite has been true...
Fall Color in Shrubs, Too
For good horticultural reasons, orange, gold and burgundy are fixed prominently in the mind as the colors of fall. These are the colors of Indian corn and the colors assumed by leaves of certa...
