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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.

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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Honey locust planting and care

Honey locust, a sweet giant – with massive thorns!

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

Agapetes, branches arching over to display cute red bells

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Lonicera standishii - winter honeysuckle

Lonicera standishii, the winter honeysuckle shrub

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

Andromeda, a 4-seasons shrub

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A swath of ghost-like handkerchief tree flowers

Handkerchief tree, a tree with truly unique flowers!

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Mary Milton viburnum

Viburnum Mary Milton, a blissfully beautiful viburnum

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Betula utilis jacquemontii, the himalayan birch

Betula jacquemontii, a fabulous white-bark birch

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Japanese dogwood - Cornus Kousa

Japanese dogwood, striking flowers and fruits

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pruning thuja

Reducing thuja, a battered look for a year, before bursting back!

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Red and yellow species and varieties of dogwood, cornus

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

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Man with hedge trimmer on standby

Laws and regulations on trimming hedges: to trim or not to trim, that is the question!

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Barbary fig paddles

Barbary fig, the cactus with paddles and prickly pear fruits

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Metrosideros

Metrosideros Carmineus, fun blooms (especially the Ferris Wheel)

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Lemon bottlebrush

Lemon bottlebrush planting, care and pruning

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Yellow leaves of bottlebrush buckeye in fall

Bottlebrush buckeye

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Cercidiphyllum

Cercidiphyllum – the sweet-scented tree that comes from the East

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Dwarf weeping tree

Dwarf weeping trees for pots and small gardens

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Yellow-leaved trees

Trees with gold yellow leaves, bring the sun to the garden!

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Colorful trees

Trees that are full of color, especially in fall

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Parrotia persica, the persian ironwood tree

Persian ironwood, strong wood and even stronger colors!

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Yellow leaves of the caramel tree

Caramel tree, delicious eye candy for the garden

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Nandina domestica

Nandina domestica, the Sacred Bamboo

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Wide clump of pleioblastus bamboo

Pleioblastus, the dwarf bamboo that’s a blast to grow

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Eucryphia planting and care

Eucryphia, the slender “Ulmo” tree covered in white flowers

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Small dwarf conifers

Small conifers and dwarf conifers for pots, containers and small gardens

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Salix integra - dappled willow

Cute and lush, Salix integra pink dwarf willow

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Cyphomandra fruits hanging from a tree

Cyphomandra, a tree that’s part of the tomato family

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Japanese pagoda tree from small to big

Japanese pagoda tree, ideal for larger gardens

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Pollinator shrubs

11 plant-me-now melliferous shrubs for pollinators

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Shrubs that bloom in pink

6 pink-blooming flower shrubs and trees for a pink garden!

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Heath soil flower shrubs, a compilation starting with this dogwood

Spectacular blooming in heath soil, 8 stunning shrubs

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Cornus, or dogwood, flowers and leaves

Cornus, dogwood, many stunning species

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mixed hedge

12 shrubs for a versatile mixed hedge: evergreen, berries, foliage and deciduous

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Horse chestnut

Horse chestnut tree, are you up to a game of conkers?

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Shinus molle, pink peppercorn

Pink Peppercorn, the false pepper: Shinus molle

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Corylopsis flower, pale yellow

Corylopsis, abundant and easy-going

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Willow leaf pear

Willow-leaf pear, a beautiful ornamental fruit tree with wispy leaves

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Wonderful white blooming of the Bradford pear tree

Bradford pear, the calleryana pear tree that went from true love to hate

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bradford pear

Bradford pear, from beloved to banished – keep a lookout for it!

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Blooming white flower cluster of the sorbus mountain ash rowan tree

Mountain ash, rowan – a boon for bees, birds and beauty lovers

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alternative shrubs for invasive brooms

5 alternatives to invasive Scotch and French broom

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French Broom being pulled out to control this invasive plant out of its native range.

French broom, a treacherous and invasive beauty

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