Silverberry – shrub with silver leaves

Plants for a fabulous oceanfront garden

Coastal climate batters seaside garden plants with many hardships: strong winds (even hurricanes), sea spray, dry summers, poor soil…

Garden plants for seaside oceanfront landscaping

Feeding birds in winter, basic rules

Feeding birds in winter is an excellent initiative to help them through this difficult season.

How to control Russian olive tree, an invasive species in America

The Russian Olive tree, as opposed to native American silverberry, is a highly invasive species in some parts of the United States and Canada.

Russian Olive, a nice shrub

Russian olive is a beautiful shrub. Its name comes from its native region – Southern Russia – and the resemblance to the olive tree around the Mediterranean.

Bird vs. Bush – can there be too many birds?

Silverberry is a resilient shrub, but in this case tiny bird droppings nearly killed it…

Silverberry, a magnificent evergreen shrub

Silverberry is a very beautiful ornamental evergreen shrub.

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.

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

Landscaping long and narrow gardens, 5 key tips to reach perfection

Small gardens, patios, urban gardens, subdivisions… Whenever buildings line the garden left and right, very often you’re left with a long strip of greenery to populate.

Dodonea, the hop-bush that’s happy planted near the sea

Dodonea viscosa key facts Botanical name – Dodonea viscosa Common name – broadleaf hopbush Family – Sapindaceae Type – Shrub