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  • Pink Poppet Weigela Survives Urban Environments

    The Pink Poppet Weigela has a "ground-cover" habit and is a popular spring-blooming shrub. It has an almost prostrate form reaching only 2’ tall and spreading up to 40 inches! This dwarf, dense, rounded, deciduous shrub is clothed in funnel shaped shell-pink flowers that are born in profusion...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-15-2009

  • Growing a Blush Satin Rose of Sharon

    The Rose of Sharon blooms profusely, and its attractive flowers are its main selling point. Like other types of Hibiscus , Rose of Sharon's flowers bear a striking stamen. Another feature giving the shrub value is its relatively late period of blooming, into August! It is a profuse bloomer and not...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-14-2009

  • How to care for the Pink Beauty Potentilla

    When I think of Potentillas I always think of them as plants with yellow flowers. For those of us who are tired of the same old yellow or white flowering Potentillas, the Pink Beauty Potentilla offers something different with its profusely blooming pink flowers ! It has bright green foliage that helps...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-11-2009

  • Caring for the Tidy and Compact Miniglobe Honeysuckle

    Miniglobe Honeysuckle is a naturally compact, tidy, ball-shaped plant. It is a mounded shrub that features diminutive yellow flowers in spring and red berries in the fall With dense blue-green foliage, it makes an excellent foundation plant or can be used for low hedges . A low maintenance exeriscape...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-10-2009

  • 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

  • About The Winter Hardy Green Gem Boxwood

    The Green Gem Boxwood is a shrub that is noted for its globular shape and excellent winter hardiness. It is a broadleaf evergreen shrub that typically grows in a dense globe to 2' tall and as wide. Elliptic to oval, glossy dark green leaves hold their color well in winter. (Its flowers are inconspicuous...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-07-2009

  • Growing the Outstanding Bluebeard Shrub

    The Bluebeard Shrub returns from cold winters and provides you with a warm welcome, from summer through fall. Not only are the flowers a valuable source of blue, but the gray foliage provides added texture in a plant world dominated by dark green leaves. It is suggested that Bluebeard should be planted...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-04-2009

  • Growing the Maintenance-free Mockorange

    A Mockorange is a reliable and absolutely maintenance-free perennial shrub. It is soil adaptable, hardy, and does best in full sun. Mockorange shrubs exude a citrusy (or orange-like) fragrance. The quality of the fragrance which will vary according to cultivar. The plants bear light green leaves and...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-01-2009

  • Growing the Dwarf Sweetspire

    Sweetspires are outstanding shrubs that bear lightly fragrant white flowers in July with brilliant reddish-purple fall color that lasts for weeks. Their color lasts longer than most other plants in the fall. Sweetspires will stay fairly small, so if you have a limited space, this shrub will work! It...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-28-2009

  • Choose Witch-Hazel for Autumn and Winter Color

    Witch-hazel is a must-have shrub for fragrance and color in a fall and winter garden. At a time when few plants are blooming and loosing their luster, witch hazel adds sparkle to the landscape with bunches of yellow to cream flowers. The four narrow, crinkled petals create a delicate, spidery appearance...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-23-2009
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