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.
Mixed hedge
Growing a mixed hedge is a great way to make every season interesting: flowers come and go, birds and berries match, butterflies appear…
11 plant-me-now melliferous shrubs for pollinators
As appealing to us as they are to pollinators, melliferous plant species are where pollinator insects reign as kings. These beautiful flowers are gorged with pollen and nectar offered up for pollinators to feed on, a trade-off that 80% of all flower-bearing species sign up for in order to reproduce.
Four-seasons hedge, every season sees it as beautiful as ever
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.
Attract butterflies with plants, flowers, and other tips
Attract butterflies to your garden! Threatened because their natural habitat is dwindling, and because of pesticides, butterflies can find refuge in our very own gardens,
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.
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
Trimming hedges, the right time
When should a hedge be trimmed, what is the right timing, and how should one go about it best?
12 shrubs for a versatile mixed hedge: evergreen, berries, foliage and deciduous
Out with the unending lines of thuja! These days, planting mixed hedges is all the fad. In such a hedge, evergreen leafage, colorful blooms and species that
Dwarf Barberry varieties, berberis for low-lying hedges and wonderful shrub beds
Several types of barberry naturally grow small. These dwarf varieties won’t grow into towering, thorny giants
Setting up a hedge, flowered, mixed or evergreen?
Hedges often mark property lines and are usually the first project for the garden. But setting a hedge up means choosing the type of shrub: flowered, mixed or evergreen. There are many options and not all shrubs are suited to growing in a hedge.
Hedges, protective barriers against diseases
Did you know that a hedge does much more than just protect us from neighbors, wind and noise?
