Trees and shrubs - page 5

Green all year long, boxwood draws back to the elegance of French gardens. Along edges to organize the garden, or sculpted as as a standalone shape, it is currently making a comeback.

Running contrary to popular belief, the pruning of boxwood is actually very easy, and doesn’t endanger your shrub in the least. Pruning boxwood is a practice that

Boxwood is probably the shrub that best personifies the notion of “French garden”.

Evergreen oak is one of today’s trendy trees, appreciated for its evergreen leafage and its reasonable size.

The tomato tree is a fruit shrub native to the tropics which bears delicious fruits called tamarillo, with firm flesh and a tangy taste.

An ornamental pear tree is a tree that bears cute flowers at the beginning of spring.

Cherry laurel is a shrub as attractive in summer as it is in winter.

Wild privet is a very beautiful shrub, often used in hedges for its beautiful leafage and its humble blooming.

Laurestine is a very beautiful shrub, the appeal of its flowers on par with that of its leaves.

Mariesii doublefile is a very beautiful shrub, much appreciated in our gardens for its appealing blooming.

Weeping willows are absolutely magnificent ornamental trees.

Lonicera purpusii is a winter honeysuckle that shares deliciously fragrant winter blooms.

To help you choose your shrubs depending on their blooming season, Nature-and-Garden recommends this selection of the most beautiful shrubs for each season.

Some shrubs have the advantage of flowering during the entire fall season. They let us make-believe that the summer is extended

Pruning shrubs is an important part of their development, their blooming or simply the harmonious shape of your specimen.

Why not go for a four-seasons hedge? Bored with drab monochrome conifers? Bring a bundle of delight to the neighborhood with a mixed hedge of ornamental flower, leaf and fruit shrubs.

Did you know that a hedge does much more than just protect us from neighbors, wind and noise?

Planting a shrub, rose tree or tree is an important phase in the life cycle of the plant you have just purchased. After having been grown in a container in a nursery or garden store, your plant will now

Tulip trees are magnificent trees, famous for the quality of their leafage, especially in fall.

Rhododendrons are among the most beautiful heath soil shrubs.