Love hydrangeas but short on space? These compact hydrangea lookalikes offer equally spectacular blooms and work in a range ...

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A low-maintenance flowering bush comes with the benefit of being a no-fuss shrubbery. It doesn’t require much water or pruning and thrives by being left alone. The best low-maintenance flowering ...

Flowering shrubs are a great anchor for your landscaping, providing a backdrop for smaller, showy plants in the front—and filling in with the flowers when other parts of your landscaping go dormant.

If spring crept up too quickly, and you’re scrambling to find some plants to add color to your garden, you should turn to ...

Pruning your shrubs is perhaps the least exciting part of gardening (though it may still beat weeding). But when it's done at the right time and with the proper technique, it can produce great results ...

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The best border flowers enhance your garden by softening hard edges and accenting the lines of pathways and planting beds.

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Flowering shrubs and small flowering trees serve important roles in the landscape. Not only do they bring color and aesthetic value to homes and gardens, but they also enhance soil stability, improve ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Spring is finally here! Everywhere you look, one can find some spring color around. Some of the first plants to peek out of the ground are spring-flowering bulbs like crocus, ...

I notice that when I go to cut off the dead flowers on my rose bushes, some of the past blooms have grown a ball shape below the faded flower. I wondered what they were and if I should really be ...