Set up a mixed hedge, different shrubs for year-round wonder
Setting up a mixed hedge fulfills all the functions of a normal single-species hedge, and provides an added aesthetic touch to your garden that is quite unique
Ceanothus
Ceanothus is a family of lush and easy landscaping shrubs. They’re covered in flowers in the right season.
Ceanothus, a wonderful blue flower shrub
Ceanothus is a tallish shrub that brings bees and butterflies to the garden in spring thanks
Top 5 spring-blooming trees
They catch the eye along streets and in parks and gardens. Learn how to recognize these five happily common spring-blooming trees.
Blooming of shrubs one season at a time
To help you choose your shrubs depending on their blooming season, Nature-and-Garden recommends this selection of the most beautiful flowering shrubs for each season.
Full sun? These plants will positively thrive!
Though most plants appreciate having lots of sun, not all of them thrive in full sun.
Soap bush, variations in blue
Having blue flowers in the garden is rather uncommon. One of the advantages of the Ceanothus soap bush is that it comes in a range of blue hues from pastel blue to deep indigo.
Soap bush, spectacular blue blooming
Soap bush, with scientific name Ceanothus, is one of the most amazing ornamental shrubs thanks to the unique blue color of its blooming.
Growing an evergreen hedge
Choosing evergreen shrubs to grow as a hedge is often a great solution to cut off curious onlookers or simply to mark the limits of a garden.
Setting up a flowered hedge
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.
