Trees and shrubs - page 2

Even though your bamboo has been properly settled in the garden for years already, you must stay alert. The need to control invasive bamboo is a constant endeavor! Bamboo growth must be constrained if you don’t want your garden to turn into an impenetrable jungle.

Anisodontea, or Cape mallow, is a beautiful shrub that bloom in spring. It deserves a prominent spot in gardens or balconies and terraces.

Buddleia is a shrub that exhibits beautiful bunches of flowers that butterflies delight in.

The strawberry tree is a remarkable shrub thanks to its fruits and cute berries that are shaped like strawberries.

Bamboo is a beautiful modern evergreen shrub, but if unchecked, it may spread uncontrollably.

Common laurel is a shrub evergreen that is often shaped to form hedges.

Glossy abelia is a beautiful shrub that offers cute blooming over the summer.

Chimonanthus, commonly called wintersweet, is one of the most beautiful shrubs to bloom in winter.

Flowering currant bears magnificent blooms in spring.

Weigela is a magnificent shrub that blooms in spring, to set up as part of a hedge or as a standalone.

Witch-hazel is a dazzling shrub that blooms in winter, as early as January.

Don’t let your garden turn all drab in in winter! Make it evolve into a space that is appealing all year long by planting trees with highly ornamental bark.

Oak is one of the most common trees and the most majestic when it grows to great height.

Ceanothus is a tallish shrub that brings bees and butterflies to the garden in spring thanks

Mahonia is a simply beautiful shrub during winter.

Camellias are among the most beautiful flower shrubs thanks to their magnificent blooming season, either in fall or in spring.

Berberis thunbergii is a beautiful shrub, especially because of its blooming and its scarlet red berries that make birds tweet with joy in winter.

The mulberry tree is a beautiful tree, both for the leaves themselves and for the cool shade they dispense in summer.

Hedges protect us from prying eyes, create intimacy, break the wind and protect our gardens. Flowered hedges boast many advantages and can even become truly ornamental.

The Mexican orange tree is a marvel at the beginning of spring with its magnificent little white flowers that smother the entire shrub.

American black elder is a beautiful flower shrub noted for its edible fruits that are a boon to our bird friends.

Exochorda is one of the most spectacular flower shrubs thanks to its abundant white spring blooming.

Pernettya is a nice evergreen shrub that is remarkable in fall with its distinctive and elegant berries.

When should a hedge be trimmed, what is the right timing, and how should one go about it best?

‘Aztec Pearl’ Choisya ternata is a Mexican orange tree variety that is very interesting for its spring green foliage, but more so because it blooms 3 times a year.

Choisya ternata White Dazzler does exactly what it sounds like – bedazzling fragrant white blooms bursting forth in

Photinia stand out with their scarlet and red-colored leaves.

Choisya ternata ‘Sundance’ is is a true marvel at the beginning of spring with its magnificent small white flowers and its superior golden yellow foliage.

Lilac blooms and shares its fragrance right at the beginning of spring, which makes it one of the most beautiful flower shrubs.

Ornamental cherry trees, also called Japanese cherry trees or Prunus, are very beautiful ornamental trees.

Cotoneaster is a very beautiful shrub, especially appreciated for its berries.

Skimmia are beautiful shrubs that are as attractive in winter as they are in the spring.

Brugmansia, also called “Angel’s Trumpets” for the magnificent flowers shaped like trumpets, is a very interesting and ornamental shrub.

Callicarpa or candy tree is a beautiful shrub that grows fine in the ground and in a pot.

The Himalayan honeysuckle is a fantastic shrub with abundant blooming.

White, pink or even yellow, flowers from the many magnolia cultivars come in many shapes and colors.

Caryopteris, also called bluebeard, is a shrub that is unique thanks to its blooming.

Palmate maple, Japanese maple or Acer palmatum is without a doubt one of the most beautiful autumn shrubs.

Acer palmatum, also well known under the name Japanese maple, is a tree that is simply beautiful. Its leaves volunteer a rare intense red, and both pots and in the ground is how you can savor its appeal. Share tree or shrub ever since its native environment, it loves having cool feet and high acid […]

Olive trees in the North? Yes, you can do it! A single thing matters: take great care of the special needs of this exceptional tree.

Alyogyne, also called Lilac hibiscus, is a remarkable shrub with generous blooming.

The lively flower colors of the Hibiscus bring to mind the enchantment of tropical flora. Hibiscus also exist as shrubs that have adapted to our latitudes and stud our summer days with multicolored dream-like flowers.

Mock-orange is a very beautiful shrub that blooms abundantly in spring and at the beginning of summer.

The cedar tree is certainly one of the most beautiful conifers, and one of the most majestic, too.

Hydrangea is a beautiful shrub, and pruning helps boost blooming and makes the plant healthier.

Crepe myrtle is an amazing ornamental summer-blooming shrub.

Better not to prune than to prune wrong. Before going crazy with your hand pruner in the garden read these lines.

Hedges often mark property lines and are usually the first project for the garden. But setting a hedge up means choosing the type of shrub: flowered, mixed or evergreen. There are many options and not all shrubs are suited to growing in a hedge.

The Leyland cypress is certainly one of the conifers most used to set up a hedge.

Bay laurel reminds one of the Mediterranean Coast with its very fragrant foliage.

Apart from its very hard wood and its elegant ornamental appeal, the ash tree has long been used for its health benefits and therapeutic properties.