How to plant a tree or shrub
Planting a tree, shrub, or rose bush is an important for the plant you have just purchased. After growing in a container in a nursery or garden store, your plant
Shrubs
Shrubs of all kinds grow in our gardens. It’s useful to have an overview to determine which ones you want to grow. Here are different articles to help out.
Best way to plant a tree or shrub, a 2-min video
The planting of a tree or shrub is the most important step in its entire life and proceeding well is easy for it to grow nicely. In this 2 minute video, you’ll discover the key points to watch out for: location and exposure, planting depth, precautions and mistakes to avoid, and smart tips to give […]
Summer-flowering shrubs
These shrubs share their flowers from spring to summer, and sometimes even longer! Either as part of a hedge or in a pot on your terrace, they share beautiful colors
5 shrubs that bloom in fall
Some shrubs have the advantage of flowering during the entire fall season. They let us make-believe that the summer is extended
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.
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.
A hedge that’s a haven for birds
Inviting wild birds to forage for snacks in hedges is one of the most thrilling garden shows – and it’s great for the environment, too.
Best practices while pruning
Pruning is tantamount to surgery for trees and shrubs. You’ll want to protect them from diseases by ensuring it’s performed perfectly. This video will share how to prepare your pruning tools in just a few minutes. Read more ►
Winter blooming shrubs, beautiful flowers in the cold
Even though there aren’t very many, winter blooming shrubs are often the most amazing. They are unique in that they bloom when all the other plants are at rest.
Very ornamental berry shrubs
Winter isn’t the season where our gardens bear the most flowers, but it still has every chance of boasting very nice colors with berry shrubs.
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.
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
Spectacular blooming in heath soil, 8 stunning shrubs
Each type of soil and climate will favor different combinations of plants. Heath plants are known to grow best on acidic substrates.
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
Spring blooming shrubs
Wonderful at the beginning of spring, these shrubs are among the first to celebrate spring in our gardens, balconies and terraces with their beautiful flowers. They are often major players in our mixed hedges and shrub beds
5 shrubs that birds find inviting in the garden
Here are 5 ideas of shrubs that birds love using for shelter. Each one is a dream come true for wild birds, helping them survive the cold season and hide out from foul weather.
Pruning shrubs, technique, season
Pruning shrubs is an important part of their development, their blooming or simply the harmonious shape of your specimen.
Cloud pruning for trees and shrubs
Niwaki – this is the Japanese word for cloud pruning. It’s the act of trimming trees into cloud shapes. An ancestral, elaborate art, this cloud pruning technique was developed to create symbolic spaces,
Refresh your topiary shrubs at the end of summer
The end of summer is the best moment for light pruning of shrubs and ornamental plants.
Pruning plants like shrubs, fruit trees, rose trees…
Although plants survive in nature without being pruned, this practice is often needed to increase flowering or fruit formation.
Different plants need different mulch
There is a mind-numbing amount of mulches on the market, and it’s never simple to find out which one is best for where you live and the plants you want to mulch.
Pruning trees and shrubs
Sometimes, it’s better not to prune than to prune wrong. Before going crazy with your hand pruner in the garden, learn why to prune and the do’s and don’ts of pruning.
