Shrub borders are my favorite kind of garden borders. They bring life, plant energy and structure to the garden all year ...

“If you don’t know where you are going, you are going to end up somewhere else.” This sage adage, credited to Yogi Berra, pinpoints the importance of planning. If you are a novice gardener and you ...

Rose of Sharon, also known as Althea and botanically known as Hibiscus syriacus is an awesome low maintenance deciduous ...

A vigorous and easy-to-care-for shrub rose is Sunny Knock Out (Rosa hybrid 'Radsunny'). The Sunny Knock Out rose is a small- to medium-sized rose, with a strong, rounded growth habit. The leaves are ...

Climbing roses serve a functional purpose while adding color, texture, and beauty to a landscape. Most types of rose bushes grow like shrubs, but these climbers can be trained to screen for privacy, ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

The American Garden Rose Selections (AGRS) 2026 winners: • ‘Buttercream Drift,’ introduced by Star Roses and Plants. • ...

Improved varieties of roses are now in garden centers. It’s time to look at how these newer roses are different from your Mom’s high-maintenance roses of a few decades ago. Remember when the rose was ...

Berry-producing shrubs also invite colorful songbirds into the garden and provide a vital source of high-energy food to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As we near the busy outdoor gardening season, it’s time to stop and smell the roses. As cliché as this sounds, there’s no time like the present to consider ...

Ever walk into a garden center and spot something new you just have to take home? This year, plant selections are getting a ...