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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.

Cotoneaster horizontalis

Growing Cotoneaster horizontalis: care tips and garden uses

Shrubs
Chaenomeles speciosa

Chaenomeles speciosa: growing guide and care tips

Shrubs
Feeding birds without the berries: native shrubs that fruit autumn-to-winter instead

Feeding birds without the berries: native shrubs that fruit autumn-to-winter instead

Trees and shrubs
Viburnum tinus

Viburnum tinus: growing guide, care tips and varieties

Shrubs
Cornus kousa

Kousa Dogwood: Your Complete Growing and Care Guide

Trees
Sorbaria sorbifolia

False Spiraea: Expert Growing Guide and Care Tips

Shrubs
Pyracantha coccinea

Firethorn: Expert Tips for Growing Pyracantha coccinea

Shrubs
Aronia melanocarpa

Black Chokeberry: Growing Guide and Garden Uses

Shrubs
Lavatera thuringiaca

Growing Lavatera thuringiaca: expert tips and planting advice

Trees and shrubs
Abelia grandiflora

Abelia Grandiflora: Growing Guide & Care Tips

Shrubs
Potentilla fruticosa

Potentilla fruticosa: expert tips for growing shrubby cinquefoil

Shrubs
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

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

Japanese tree lilac: summer shape and structure guide

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

Hydrangea deadheading and shaping in summer: the complete guide

Shrubs
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

Trees
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

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

The Mistake Most Gardeners Make When Pruning Hedges in Summer

Trees and shrubs
Gardener pruning a flowering shrub with secateurs on a sunny summer morning

Prune This Shrub Now or Lose a Full Season of Flowers

Shrubs
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

Trees and shrubs
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

Trees and shrubs
Alder tree

Alder, a resilient tree well adapted to wetlands

Trees
Elm tree

Elm, a beautiful tall tree

Trees
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
Pruning trees, why and how

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

Trees and shrubs
Sea buckthorn

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

Shrubs
year round hedge

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

Trees and shrubs
Magnolia grandiflora

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

Trees
When and why to stake a tree

Tree staking, why do it and how?

Trees and shrubs
Pruning a mimosa tree

Mimosa tree pruning and shaping

Trees
white forsythia, korean forsythia

Abeliophyllum Distichum, the White Forsythia

Shrubs
Oregon grape

Oregon grape holly, berries and bright winter blooms

Shrubs
topiary

Topiary, artful blending of beauty, perseverance, and imagination

Trees and shrubs
Mimosa in a pot

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

Trees
mimosa tree varieties

Mimosa tree varieties: more blooms in winter!

Trees
Hortensia

Hortensia, a shrub with fabulous bloom clusters

Shrubs
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
Paulownia, a fast-growing shade tree

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

Trees
Fagus sylvatica, common beech

Fagus sylvatica, beech tree: varieties, planting and care

Trees
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
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

Shrubs
Choosing the right bamboo for planting

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

Trees and shrubs