Plant Profile: Sea Buckthorn ( Hippophae rhamnoides)
Karen Grown in China for twelve centuries for its medicial uses this spiny deciduous shrub may become the next health food fad but is a useful garden plant too. The outstanding…
Plant Profile: Alpine Currant (Ribes alpinum)
This deciduous, twiggy shrub with medium texture is a good choice for areas that can be challenging for less adaptable plants. It is easily transplanted and grown, tolerates a wide…
Plant Profile: Shrubby St. Johnswort (Hypericum prolificum)
This native of eastern and central United States is a small compact deciduous shrub with medium texture and rounded form. It produces yellow flowers about one inch across with five…
Plant Profile: Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora)
A native of woodlands in southeastern United States, bottlebrush buckeye is a wide, suckering deciduous shrub that needs plenty of room to grow. In summer, its palmately compound leaves are…
Plant Profile: Tree Peony (Paeonia suffrcticosa)
For large beautiful flowers it is hard to beat the tree peony. Grown in China for over a thousand years, tree peony is a deciduous shrub with spreading branches growing…
Plant Profile: Carolina Allspice (Calycanthus floridus)
The reddish-brown flowers of this deciduous bush are loaded with a spicy fragrance that will fill the air with their pleasant aroma when they open in late spring. A native…
How to Choose Hydrangeas
The large flowerheads of hydrangea bring an old fashioned charm to a garden. The flowers may be white, pink, blue, or a shade of purple, they can be round or…
Plant Profile: ‘Annabelle’ Hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’)
The most popular of the H. arborescens is “Annabelle’, and for good reason. First, it can be cut back in late winter because it produces flowers on new growth. There…
Plant Profile: ‘My Monet’ Weigela (Weigela florida ‘Verweig’)
Weigelas have an old-fashioned charm but this one is special and offers even more. It is only 12” high and compact, forming a neat mound. Its leaves are variegated with…
Plant Profile: White Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus)
This native of woodland edges, stream banks, and roadsides from Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Missouri south to Florida and west to Texas, is a small deciduous shrub or tree with a…