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Unusual hydrangeas

New hydrangea varieties that sure look different!

Garden Flowers
Callistemon is a fabulous shrub that also does great in cities

Callistemon: it looks like a bottlebrush and smells like lemon!

Shrubs
White willow branch with catkins against a silver body of water

White willow, a light, breezy willow to line riverbeds and lakes

Trees
Sea orache, or salbush, leaves

Sea orache, the saltbush for seaside gardens… with edible leaves!

Shrubs
Cordyline australis - Cabbage tree

Cordyline australis, a palm-like plant that does great in cold weather

Trees
Phyllostachys bamboo with stems and leaves

Phyllostachys bamboo: plant, contain, and care like a pro

Trees and shrubs
French garden designs include patterns, hedges, and much more

French garden, landscape your own Jardin à la Française!

Special reports
cardoon

Cardoon, planting, care, blanching

The Vegetable Patch
Peacock hiding in a holly bush

5 shrubs that birds find inviting in the garden

Trees and shrubs
Tomato is a fruit that many think is a vegetable

Tomato, a fruit or a veggie? The final answer.

The Vegetable Patch
New varieties of tomatoes produced every year show how important this king of vegetables is for us

King of vegetables? The Tomato, of course!

The Vegetable Patch
Nice sun shining through a windmill palm leaf

Windmill palm, blow those winter worries away!

Trees and shrubs
Fargesia bamboo

Fargesia, the dense-growing bamboo that’s perfect for privacy

Trees and shrubs
hedge shrubs for birds

A hedge that’s a haven for birds

Trees and shrubs
Basket with banana legs tomatoes in it

Banana Legs tomato, long and yellow, like a banana!

The Vegetable Patch
Large, straight beech tree

Beech, a tall, smooth-skinned gigantic shade tree

Trees
Seaside view through leaves and seed pods of blue lyme grass

Blue lyme grass, the sand grass that looks like rye

Ornamental grasses
Araucaria araucana, the monkey puzzle tree

The monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana

Trees and shrubs
Atlas cedar branch with a rose

Atlas cedar essential oil: how to dilute it and what it is used for

Health
Kniphofia red hot poker

Red hot poker, huge fiery flowers!

Perennials
Health benefits of butterbur are numerous

Butterbur: the giant-leaved plant, its traditional uses and its real cautions

Health
Heath pearlwort

Heath pearlwort, sagina subulata: a white-blooming grass substitute for lawns

Perennials
Platycodon

Platycodon, a flower that balloons as it blooms!

Perennials
Ice Cream tulip looks like an ice-cream cone with two scoops

Ice cream tulip, the tulip that makes your mouth water… Double cone, anyone?

Bulb flowers
Grafting plant

Grafting, purpose and best techniques

Special reports
Mortar and pestle with 5 dried herbs that treat pollen allergies

Five plants herbalists turn to during pollen season

Health
Honey locust planting and care

Honey locust, a sweet giant – with massive thorns!

Trees
Lacinato kale leaves growing lush and tall

Lacinato kale, a swarthy, dark vegetable posing as an ornamental

The Vegetable Patch
Beefsteak tomato

The beefsteak tomato, a massive tomato ideal for baking

The Vegetable Patch
Garden shed with climbing vines decorating it

Which vine is best to decorate your garden shed or pergola?

Climbing plants
Marram grass against the sunset

Marram beach grass, holding the sand in place

Ornamental grasses
Plants that trigger allergy and those that don't

Allergic to pollen? Types of plants to avoid, and what to replace them with

Special reports
Chufa roots with groundnuts forming

Chufa, a root vegetable that produces groundnuts

The Vegetable Patch
Flowers, palms and ferns create an exotic garden even when not in the tropics

Create an exotic garden… bring the tropics to your back yard

Special reports
Close-up of grand vert basil young leaves

Grand Vert, the basil with large, even tastier leaves

Herbs and spices
Rhapis excelsa - bamboo palm

Rhapis excelsa, the bamboo palm that fits right in your home

Indoor plants
Inula is a plant that is beautiful for landscaping

Inula, a family of surprising sun-like flowers

Perennials
Marmande tomatoes

Marmande tomato, it harks back to the first industrial tomatoes

The Vegetable Patch
Winter-blooming rose under the snow

Five fabulous winter-blooming flowers

Special reports
beautiful winter garden

5 keys for a beautiful winter garden

Special reports
Winter flowers

10 Winter flowers from ground to sky: bulbs, shrubs, trees…

Special reports
Indigo rose tomato

Indigo rose, a tomato variety for small, black cocktail tomatoes

The Vegetable Patch
Large, green slightly striped primora tomato

Primora tomato, a large, dark, striped variety that looks stunning in salad

The Vegetable Patch
Row of agapetes flowers seen from the front view (Himalayan lantern)

Agapetes, branches arching over to display cute red bells

Shrubs
Topiary in the form of low spiraling hedges, properly refreshed

Refresh your topiary shrubs at the end of summer

Gardening
Lonicera standishii - winter honeysuckle

Lonicera standishii, the winter honeysuckle shrub

Shrubs
Plants that resist freezing

9 outdoor plants that resist cold winter weather

Special reports
Four roma tomatoes on the vine

Roma tomato, disease-resistant and nearly seedless

The Vegetable Patch
Varieties of tomato in a crate, with each type used differently

Best tomato types for each cooking use, 5 types

Gardening
Annapurna rose, a beautiful rose

Annapurna rose tree, irresistible

Roses
Andromeda is a type of shrub. As a plant, it is magnificent in all seasons

Andromeda, a 4-seasons shrub

Shrubs