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Overgrown woody lavender shrub with bare stems and sparse purple blooms in summer garden

Your Lavender Is Woody and Bare — This Summer Trim Fixes It Before It’s Too Late

Garden Flowers
Gardener pruning a flowering shrub with secateurs on a sunny summer morning

Prune This Shrub Now or Lose a Full Season of Flowers

Shrubs
Hydrangea flower heads turning brown and crispy at the edges in summer heat

Your Hydrangeas Are Turning Brown Right Now — Here’s What Summer Heat Is Really Doing to Them

Garden Flowers
Lush fresh mint, basil, and rosemary herbs growing together in terracotta pots on a sunny patio

The Herb I Nearly Killed Three Times (And Why It’s Worth Every Effort)

Herbs and spices
Vibrant red tropical hibiscus flowers blooming in a summer garden with green foliage

Your Hibiscus Is About to Explode With Blooms — Unless You Make This One Mistake in June

Garden Flowers
Vibrant magenta bougainvillea in full bloom cascading over a white garden wall in summer sunshine

Bougainvillea Won’t Bloom? You’re Probably Making This One Mistake

Climbing plants
Large tropical hibiscus with vivid red flowers blooming in a sunny summer garden

The Hibiscus Secret That Changes Everything (Most Gardeners Never Figure This Out)

Flowering houseplants
Vibrant magenta bougainvillea climbing a white garden wall in full summer bloom

Why Your Bougainvillea Looks Half-Dead (And the Fix Nobody Talks About)

Climbing plants
Elaeagnus angustifolia

Elaeagnus angustifolia, a beautiful and fast-growing shrub

Shrubs
kolkwitzia

Kolkwitzia amabilis, a shrub with abundant blooming

Shrubs
Leucothoe shrub

Leucothoe planting and care: single shrub, twice the appeal

Shrubs
Physocarpus, ninebark

Physocarpus, a simple yet very charming shrub

Shrubs
Growing camellia in a pot or container

Container Camellia, with the right pot you’ll get a great flower shrub!

Shrubs
Jerusalem sage

Jerusalem sage, learn to grow Phlomis fruticosa

Garden Flowers
Sea buckthorn

Sea buckthorn, lots of spikes, but lots of berries, too!

Shrubs
Propagation gardenia

Propagating gardenia through cuttings, marcot, seeds

Flowering houseplants
Container finger lime

Grow finger lime in a pot, for house and deck!

Indoor plants
white forsythia, korean forsythia

Abeliophyllum Distichum, the White Forsythia

Shrubs
Oregon grape

Oregon grape holly, berries and bright winter blooms

Shrubs
Plumbago varieties and colors

Plumbago varieties, colors and climbers galore!

Climbing plants
Portuguese lavender

Portuguese lavender, excellent essential oil

Garden Flowers
Hortensia

Hortensia, a shrub with fabulous bloom clusters

Shrubs
Biological control of russian olive

Biological control of Russian olive

Treating diseases and pests
Convolvulus is a shrubby bush that bears flowers identical to those of bindweed

Convolvulus, the shrubby bindweed with leaves like silver

Garden Flowers
Cornus alba in fall

Cornus alba, the white dogwood that’s actually pretty red… and green… and white!

Shrubs
Butterfly bush

Butterfly bush, fluttering and buzzing all around fabulous flowers

Shrubs
Dodonea, the broadleaf hop bush

Dodonea, the hop-bush that’s happy planted near the sea

Shrubs
cotinus smoke tree

Cotinus, the smoke tree that catches fire in fall

Shrubs
Hypericum

Hypericum, yellow-studded shrubs from ankle-height to hard-to-reach

Shrubs
Olearia traversii

Olearia, the chatham tree that fell in love with the sea

Shrubs
Flowers and leaves of prunus laurocerasus

Prunus laurocerasus, a shrub with leathery evergreen foliage

Shrubs
blue shrubs for dry garden

Silver and blue, 3 stunning flower shrubs for dry gardens

Shrubs
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
Sea orache, or salbush, leaves

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

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

Andromeda, a 4-seasons shrub

Shrubs
Tea tree, the tree that grows leaves for tea

Tea tree growing, care… harvest and drinking, too!

Herbs and spices
Mary Milton viburnum

Viburnum Mary Milton, a blissfully beautiful viburnum

Shrubs
Young propagated lavender shoots

Propagate lavender with these 100% propagation guidelines

Garden Flowers
Thornless blackberry

Thornless blackberry, a pleasure to harvest!

The fruit Orchard
Red and yellow species and varieties of dogwood, cornus

Types and varieties of red or yellow dogwood, like fire in winter!

Shrubs
Metrosideros

Metrosideros Carmineus, fun blooms (especially the Ferris Wheel)

Shrubs
Russian olive tree with many fruits

How does Russian olive impact the environment?

Special reports
Lemon bottlebrush

Lemon bottlebrush planting, care and pruning

Shrubs
Yellow leaves of bottlebrush buckeye in fall

Bottlebrush buckeye

Shrubs
Lavandin

Lavandin, the most successful variety in the world

Garden Flowers
Erica carnea - winter heath

Erica carnea, the winter heather

Garden Flowers
Nandina domestica

Nandina domestica, the Sacred Bamboo

Shrubs