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Planting Shrubs

Many shrubs and roses can be planted between 2 and 5 feet apart depending on the variety width at maturity. Preparation: Hard or Clay Soil: Add coarse sand and organic matter to the soil that you will be putting back in the hole. This will lessen the compaction of the dirt around the root system after planting. Loose or Sandy Soil: Add topsoil and organic matter will help to build the quality of the soil, provide nutrients and density. Planting Bare Root Shrubs: Dig holes 8 to 14 inches wide and 12 to14 inches deep just make certain that it is no less than 3 to 4 inches deeper than the root...

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5 Best Shade Tolerant Shrubs

Check Out These 5 Best Shade Tolerant Shrubs! Shade can pose special challenges. While planting for the sun can seem like a cakewalk, planting in shade can feel like walking on cake (not pleasant!). But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are lots of wonderful shrubs that do well in shade, and with careful planning even sun lovers can tolerate some shade too. Here’s our 5 best shade tolerant shrubs that you can use in those difficult shadier spots! Hydrangeas are a staple shrub in the shade. They not only tolerate shade, but many require a good amount of shade to...

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Snow Queen Hydrangea

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snow Queen' - Oakleaf hydrangeas are one of the most statuesque native shrubs. For certain, this one earns the name of 'Snow Queen'. The upright white panicles stand out beautifully against the large dark green leathery leaves in summer. As the leaves turn into a burgundy for autumn, the white flowers begin fading to a light pink shade. This beautiful native shrub attracts pollinators, too. Growing into the 7 to 10 foot height range, it will spread equally wide.

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Merritt Supreme Hydrangea

Merritt Supreme macrophylla Hydrangea | Big Leaf Mophead Hydrangea Beautiful rose to carmine red flowers appear in midsummer to early fall are set against dark green foliage with serrated sedges. The Merrit Supreme mophead Hydrangea reaches the 4 to 5 foot tall range making it a more compact mophead variety . The large (6 to 8 inches) blooms begin in mid summer and continue to early fall. Planting Care for Merritt's Supreme Hydrangea : Plant this strong growing mophead hydrangea in rich organic soil with an alkaline pH for large rich rosey pink flowers in the 6 to 8 inch range. Water 1 to 3...

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Climbing Hydrangea

Climbing Hydrangea Vines The climbing hydrangea climbs up to 30 to 40 feet high. The Petiolaris anomala Hydrangea is a beautiful vigorous woody climbing vine like plant. Hydrangea vines can be planted to climb trees, arbors, trellises, masonry walls, rocks and fences. Also, perfect as a garden ground cover, the climbing Hydrangea produces masses of off white flowers in early summer. A great flowering shrub vine . Adaptable to any light, you can plant the climbing hydrangea in full sun, partial sun to light shade, although it performs best in areas with morning sun and afternoon shade. May...

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“Sickly” soil can be saved!

When you have serious soil problems, it can be almost impossible to grow anything successfully. But when you nurse your sick soil back to health, you’ll be amazed at the exciting variety of plants that thrive in your formerly barren wasteland! Let me reassure you that you CAN revive “bad” soil. Add a little “landscaper know-how” to some of the excellent products that are now available to homeowners and you’ll see a major improvement. Here are a couple of recent questions from readers who are having soil problems. Like these folks, you can send an e-mail to [email protected] if you need...

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Tips on How to Reclaim Your Overgrown Gardens

Gardens and landscapes need yearly maintenance to keep them healthy, but so often these spaces go years without attendance and become hot messes. This can happen for many reasons. Illness can keep someone from tending to the garden. A home that is in the process of being sold and purchased often sees it’s landscaping suffer. Some folks just give up for a season for whatever reason and find themselves overwhelmed with what the following year brings. For whatever reason, gardens can become overgrown , and they need to be put back in their place. So how do you go about that? Well...here are our...

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20 Quick Updates for Your Garden

A few easy-to-do quick updates can make your garden amazing. Implement at least 5 of these quickies for an awesome garden! 1. Place planted containers at your front door, on steps, and empty corners. Adding potted plants at your front door is a friendly gesture. Healthy potted plants, especially those with fragrance, are so welcoming to guests. Lavender plants are calming fragrance and often used in therapy to keep people calm and level headed. 2. Prune or trim over grown trees and shrubs. Remove the dead and damaged branches and then trim to provide shape...

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September To-Do Garden List

It doesn’t matter where you live- September is an exciting time in the garden. In the north September brings a time of bounty of change. In the south, September often begins the new growing season, and a break from oppressive extreme summertime heat. All throughout the country, it’s a busy month. What you should be adding to your September to-do garden list is going to vary based on your location, but we’ve put together a general guide for most of us to follow when September does come. Time to Plant! Yes, it’s the time to plant ! This time of year brings more rainfall for most of us, and...

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3 Simple Ways to Make your Gardening Easier

Gardeners will tell you that gardening is a lot of work. I am a gardener that enjoys the work a garden demands. I like the workout that you get from hauling wheelbarrows full of compost all over the place. I enjoy the punishment of pulling weeds and landing fingers on slugs. I don’t mind spending money on pots of plants that are pushing zones in the event that I could possibly keep them alive where I live- only to have them die of course (the ones that live are triumphs that fuel me too). Yes indeed- there are some gardeners like me to live and breathe this stuff. But I am aware that not...

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