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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.

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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Clump of invasive scotch broom, here in its native range

Scotch broom, is it invasive or not? Depends where…

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Native and invasive ranges of Albizia

Albizia native range – and places where it’s invasive now, too

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Mistletoe berries and leaves

Mistletoe, the druid’s mysterious herb

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Juniper

Juniperus, a superb conifer

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Scotch laburnum forms cascades of yellow flowers

Scotch laburnum, magnificent yellow bunches

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Tamarisk, invasive and native ranges

Tamarisk native and invasive ranges: should you plant it?

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Invasive Russian Olive in Montana

Where is Russian Olive invasive or native?

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Japanese snowball

Japanese snowball, like snow in spring in the garden

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Cover of cytisus flowers

Cytisus broom shrubs, a sweeping flush of yellow, white & more!

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Caucasian elm leaves

Caucasian elm, delicate yellow leaves in fall for a hardy-proof winter

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Coral tree

Coral tree, ablaze with flowers

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mariesii viburnum

Mariesii, a special doublefile Viburnum plicatum

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carpenteria californica

Carpenteria Californica, superb white color

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mahonia winter

Mahonia, blazing gold from New Year’s to Spring

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Flowers of the pieris shrub

4 seasons Pieris

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Chamaecyparis lawsoniana

Chamaecyparis, the Lawson false cypress

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Yellow-blooming osmanthus

Osmanthus, beautiful fragrant blooming

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Hedge grown with guelder-rose

Guelder-rose – famous for its flowers

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Catalpa tree

Catalpa, a shade tree with amazing orchid-like blooms

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Silk tree flower with pink rim and white center

Silk tree – proper care and soft pruning for this silk-flowered tree

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Flower of the Robinia pseudoacacia umbraculifera variety

Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Umbraculifera’, a round-shaped tree for gardens and containers

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Delineated mophead acacia tree

Mophead acacia, a beautiful acacia with a happily frazzled appearance

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acacia tree

Acacia tree – planting, care and pruning of this towering shade-giver

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Blue-colored soap bush flowers

Soap bush, variations in blue

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A young katsura tree branch, perfect for cuttings.

Preparing katsura cuttings – a quick way to propagate your Caramel tree!

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Katsura tree

Katsura, the tree that produces a sweet-smelling fragrance

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Katsura tree varieties

Katsura tree varieties, magnificent and weeping

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katsura bonsai

Katsura bonsai – tips on starting and caring for a Cercidiphyllum caramel tree bonsai

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Young katsura tree at the Geoff Hamilton Memorial Garden

Planting a katsura tree – tips and tricks to make sure it thrives!

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Katsura male flowers on branch

Katsura propagation top techniques & how-to

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Seed pods of the katsura tree on branch, for sowing

Growing a Katsura tree from seed

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Four katsura seeds (Cercidiphyllum japonicum)

Katsura tree germination – success rates, problems, and how to succeed

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Female Cercidiphyllum katsura flower

Katsura tree – is your tree male or female?

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Spindle bush

Spindle, a shrub with very ornamental leaves and seeds

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Bladder-senna fruits, light pink balloons

Bladder-senna, pods full of air like tiny balloons!

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Newly planted dwarf barberry shrub.

Dwarf Barberry varieties, berberis for low-lying hedges and wonderful shrub beds

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How to plant a tree or shrub

How to plant a tree or shrub

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Evergreen laurel

Laurel, evergreen species for greenery in winter 

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Elder, sambucus nigra, flower

Black elder, known for its fruits

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cestrum

Cestrum, a shrub with fragrant hanging flowers

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Snowberry, symphoricarpos

Snowberry, the pearl tree

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Red berries dot this rhamnus alaternus or mediterranean buckthorn

Italian Buckthorn, how to care for Rhamnus alaternus

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Shaped boxwood shrubs forming boxes

Boxwood, always the elegant one

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Phillyrea

Phillyrea, a short olive-like tree for hardy climates

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Thuja

Thuja, a true hedge conifer

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Willow shrubs are willows that grow shorter than normal willow trees

Willow shrubs, small but ever so elegant

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Salix caprea

Salix Caprea ‘Kilmarnock’, a miniature weeping willow

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Tulip tree

Tulip tree, a surprising shade tree with tulip-like blooming!

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Crepe myrtle

Crepe myrtle, superb summer blooming

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