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Majestic towering trees compete with emblematic shrubs to decorate gardens throughout the year. Here’s all you can expect from your shrubs and trees.

Crape myrtle tree in full summer bloom with vivid pink flower clusters against blue sky

How Crape Myrtle Turns a Bare Summer Garden Into a Colour Spectacle

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Japanese tree lilac in full cream-white flower clusters against blue summer sky

Japanese tree lilac: summer shape and structure guide

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Gardener deadheading faded hydrangea mophead blooms with sharp secateurs in summer garden

Hydrangea deadheading and shaping in summer: the complete guide

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Large magnolia tree in full bloom with white and pink cup-shaped flowers against blue sky

Magnolia trees: growing, pruning, and caring through every season

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Deciduous tree dropping yellowing leaves onto dry summer lawn in afternoon sun

Your Tree Is Dropping Leaves in Summer — and It’s Not the Heat

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Gardener trimming a formal green hedge with electric shears on a sunny summer day

The Mistake Most Gardeners Make When Pruning Hedges in Summer

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

Prune This Shrub Now or Lose a Full Season of Flowers

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Gardener sprinkling used coffee grounds around the base of a rose bush in summer garden

The Mistake Most Gardeners Make With Coffee Grounds This Summer

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Olive tree with scorched yellowing leaves showing early xylella fastidiosa symptoms in summer

Your Olive or Lavender Is Dying From the Inside — and You Probably Can’t See It Yet

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Alder tree

Alder, a resilient tree well adapted to wetlands

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Elm tree

Elm, a beautiful tall tree

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Elaeagnus angustifolia

Elaeagnus angustifolia, a beautiful and fast-growing shrub

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kolkwitzia

Kolkwitzia amabilis, a shrub with abundant blooming

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Leucothoe shrub

Leucothoe planting and care: single shrub, twice the appeal

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Physocarpus, ninebark

Physocarpus, a simple yet very charming shrub

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Growing camellia in a pot or container

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

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Pruning trees, why and how

Tree pruning, a near-surgical operation to reduce or shape a tree

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Sea buckthorn

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

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year round hedge

A striking hedge all year ’round with shrubs that shine in different seasons

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Magnolia grandiflora

Grandiflora Magnolia: evergreen star of summer, amazing head-sized blooms

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When and why to stake a tree

Tree staking, why do it and how?

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Pruning a mimosa tree

Mimosa tree pruning and shaping

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white forsythia, korean forsythia

Abeliophyllum Distichum, the White Forsythia

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Oregon grape

Oregon grape holly, berries and bright winter blooms

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topiary

Topiary, artful blending of beauty, perseverance, and imagination

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Mimosa in a pot

Mimosa in a pot, grow that winter sun at home!

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mimosa tree varieties

Mimosa tree varieties: more blooms in winter!

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Hortensia

Hortensia, a shrub with fabulous bloom clusters

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Cornus alba in fall

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

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Butterfly bush

Butterfly bush, fluttering and buzzing all around fabulous flowers

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Dodonea, the broadleaf hop bush

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

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Paulownia, a fast-growing shade tree

Paulownia, racing for the heavens… to provide blissful shade for all!

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Fagus sylvatica, common beech

Fagus sylvatica, beech tree: varieties, planting and care

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cotinus smoke tree

Cotinus, the smoke tree that catches fire in fall

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Hypericum

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

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Olearia traversii

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

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Flowers and leaves of prunus laurocerasus

Prunus laurocerasus, a shrub with leathery evergreen foliage

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Light shining through bamboo plants

Bamboo, a plant with mysterious secrets

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blue shrubs for dry garden

Silver and blue, 3 stunning flower shrubs for dry gardens

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Choosing the right bamboo for planting

Choosing the right bamboo for planting: running, dwarf, black canes?

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Callistemon is a fabulous shrub that also does great in cities

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

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White willow branch with catkins against a silver body of water

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

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Sea orache, or salbush, leaves

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

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Cordyline australis - Cabbage tree

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

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Phyllostachys bamboo with stems and leaves

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

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Peacock hiding in a holly bush

5 shrubs that birds find inviting in the garden

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Nice sun shining through a windmill palm leaf

Windmill palm, blow those winter worries away!

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Fargesia bamboo

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

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hedge shrubs for birds

A hedge that’s a haven for birds

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Large, straight beech tree

Beech, a tall, smooth-skinned gigantic shade tree

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Araucaria araucana, the monkey puzzle tree

The monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana

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