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Best Plants For Fall Color

Planting a well-rounded landscape includes the best plants for fall color. As summer flowering shrubs and perennials begin to fade in late August to mid September, these plants have been waiting to put on their color show. Blending an assortment of these fall color trees, shrubs and perennials into your garden or landscape settings will provide interesting early to late fall foliage. The best fall color trees are the Red Sunset Maple and Ginkgo Biloba . The Red Sunset leaves morph from green to fall red while the Ginkgo leaves become a beautiful bright yellow. ...

Planting and caring tips for hydrangeas plants

Hydrangea plants are vibrant long-living flowering shrubs that bloom profusely summer through fall. Hydrangea bushes come in wonderful shades of blue, red, white, cream, pink, and purple. Their ability to tolerate wind and salt make them an ideal to be kept outdoors and indoors planted in pots. The best way to enjoy the scenic arrangement of hydrangea shrubs in a landscape is by planting them in multiples of 3 plants. There are two principal groups of hydrangea plants: Plants that blossom on new season growth Plants that blossom on last years growth How to grow hydrangea plants? Hydrangeas...

Garden Plants for Allergy Sufferers

Gardening with allergies can be a wonderful experience with some planning. The low allergy garden is full of beautiful plants that have one thing in common. They are insect pollinated plants which eliminates wind blown pollen. There are many, many trees, shrubs and perennials that are pollinated by insects that the low allergy garden is well rounded. All herbs, including rosemary, lavender, thyme, oregano, sage, mint and chives , are welcome here as well as vegetable and fruiting plants. Ground covers are used most effectively here. Covering the soil with creeping plants reduces the dust in...

10 Easiest to Grow Flowering Shrubs for Hedges and Foundations

With winter damage creating the need for homeowners to replace hedges and foundation plants , homeowners will be searching for the 10 easiest to grow flowering shrubs . Looking for flowering shrubs to plant and with little attention just seem to grow? Then you will like the following list of the 10 easiest to grow flowering shrubs and bushes . Red Barberry Clethra California Privet Oakleaf Hydrangea Red Twig Dogwood Golden Forsythia Rose of Sharon Rosa Rugosa Red Variegated Weigela Viburnum Japanese Snowball Planted properly these flowering shrubs will easily establish and grow. Most are even...

Plants for Your Pool Landscape

Looking for more ideas on what to plant around the fence (perimeter) of your pool area to create more privacy or in the poolside landscape? Greenwood Nursery has trees, shrubs, perennials and ground covers that will grow beautifully in your pool landscape. Need more ideas? Send us a picture of your pool area along with location and we'll offer more suggestions. Plants that can be used for landscapes and hedges around the perimeter of the pool area (20 to 30 feet away from the pool) are: Rose of Sharon Emerald Green Arborvitae Sunset Glow Bamboo ...

How to Landscape around Decks, Patios and Porches

Choosing the correct plants for landscaping around decks, patios and porches can often be a daunting task. Here we list plants in the settings that best fit for size, interest, color and texture. Once the weather warms and decks, patios and porches are back in use, queries begin coming in requesting assistance in landscaping these areas. So, I thought it would be a good idea to offer these suggestions to all of our readers. The first task is to sit on your patio, porch or deck and actually look out (away from the exterior walls). What do you see? Do you see an open neverending lawn or, maybe...

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