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  • The Appealing Sem Ash Leaf Spirea

    Sem Ash Leaf Spirea is a pinkish-red, fern-like spring foliage that unfurls along deep pink stems. It is especially valuable for northern climates since it thrives in zones 3 -7. Compact, better-branched, and more dense than others, it creates a tight, bushy little mound in the garden, making a fine...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-09-2009

  • A Thornless Barberry with stunning fall color!

    The Thornless Barberry is an “almost thornless” selection of green-leaved barberry. A small ornamental shrub , its habit is globe-like, and it is a nice addition to the barberries. The bright green summer foliage changes to shades of red in the fall. This barberry is a compact, rounded form of Japanese...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-08-2009

  • Trimming or Pruning Privet Hedges

    Privets are very versatile plants and one of the perfect plants for hedging. They have been used to make walls, tall barriers, and sound barriers. You can let it grow to 15 ft. or trim it to any size you want. Because of this, it can be made into arches, low to the ground fences, or it can be made thick...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-29-2009

  • Caring for Junipers

    Junipers are important evergreens for landscape use due to their tolerance of unfavorable soil conditions, their hardiness and great variation in size, habit, color and growth rate. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges , screens or windbreaks . These plants may also...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-27-2009

  • Autumn Olive Berries

    If you are looking for healthy berries, the small edible olives of the Autumn Olive Tree ripen in September and taste very much like cranberries. The flavor of Autumn Oilve berries is also reminiscent of other fruits from currants to peaches and is crammed with nutritional value . Autumn Olives are tart...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-20-2009

  • Growing the Daphne Spirea Shrub

    A prolific bloomer, this Daphne Spirea is covered with clusters of flowers in summer. Its striking foliage forms a dense mounded shape. It is a low, spreading deciduous shrub useful as a groundcover, low hedge or over walls and embankments. It has showy, pink flat flower clusters all summer long. Remove...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-19-2009

  • Growing Boxwood Shrubs

    Need an excellent low maintenance hedge? There are many types of Boxwood shrubs to choose from, and each has its own unique features. Boxwoods are compact plants, are amenable to trimming, and bear dense, attractive foliage. This combination of qualities makes them a solid choice for a hedge . The foliage...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-15-2009

  • Serviceberry, Shadblow, Shadbush, Juneberry, are the same plant.

    A Serviceberr y is a small deciduous tree or shrub with attractive white spring blossoms. It provides year-round interest in the landscape, as well as producing edible fruits. In different areas of the country the serviceberry can be called a shadblow, shadbush, juneberry or saskatoon. Serviceberries...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-05-2009

  • Landscaping with Yews

    Yews are widely used as landscape plants because of their rich, dark green evergreen foliage and versatility. They are easy to maintain at various heights and spreads. Remove 1/2 to 3/4 of the new growth each year with hand pruners; you can control the size and maintain a healthier shrub with a more...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-02-2009

  • Siberian Peashrub grows in difficult situations

    Siberian Peashrub is a deciduous large shrub that can be trained into a small tree , and ranges from 10 to 15 feet in height. It is typically multi-stemmed with erect to spreading branches, often with branches and foliage down to the base, from a dense, spreading root system. It is well adapted to exposed...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 08-22-2009
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