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 		Cold Hardy Camellia Selections
Camellias are a fragrant, evergreen shrub associated with southern landscapes and gardens. Recent hybridizers and developments are creating more cold-hardy cultivars.
Shrubs for Attracting Songbirds
Attracting birds to the garden landscape can be easy for gardeners who plant these shrubs that feed and house native bird species.
Ornamental Shrubs with Edible Flower Blooms
When gardeners think about flowers to add to their edible landscapes, they usually consider annual or perennial flowers. But these shrubs have kitchen-worthy uses too.
How to Grow Lilac Shrubs Plant Profile
Lilacs are the perennial harbingers of spring, and a favorite deciuous shrub to include in fragrance garden, heirloom cottage gardens and more.
Shrubs for Bright Fall Foliage
Red, yellow, orange and burgundy-purple colors make the autumn landscape shine with brilliant colors. These shrubs add fall foliage accents to the garden.
Yellow Flowering Shrubs for Theme Gardens
These gorgeous shrubs provide interest and backdrop to the yellow themed garden setting off the other flowering plants well.
Plant Profile Barberry (Berberis)
Barberry shrubs are widely used in garden landscapes because of the attractive foliage, fragrant flowers and deer resistant thorny stems. See how to care for the shrubs.
Deer Resistant Garden Shrubs
While no plant is one hundred percent deer-proof, these shrubs will deter most deer from snacking and sampling the foliage and destroying your garden landscape.
Growing Shrub Plants as Standards
A unique way to display plants in the formal garden landscape is to grow or train them to a standard form. These tips will help you grow shrubs in tree form.
Japanese Garden Evergreen Plants
These lovely evergreen conifers make great additions to a Japanese reflection garden because of the interesting form and year round color they provide the landscape.
Growing Firethorn Plant Profile
Attractive evergreen shrubs can be trained up walls and fences as a colorful backdrop for other perennial plants and garden borders.
Camellias: Encyclopedia Review
Camellias: The Gardener's Encyclopedia by Jennifer Trehane is a huge resource for gardeners who love, or want to learn more about, this ornamental shrub - the Camellia.
Shrub Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new flowering and ornamental shrubs for home gardeners in 2008. New colors, healthier plants and interesting flower forms can all be found.
Rose Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new rose plants available to home gardeners in 2008. New colors, healthier plants and attractive foliage forms can all be found.
Winter Flowering Shrubs
Winter doesn't have to be a total loss in the garden - these ornamental shrubs add winter blooms and beauty to the landscape.
Spring Blooming Deciduous Shrubs
Deciduous shrubs are great additions to the garden and these spring blooming shrubs are some of the most pleasant and familiar of the spring-flowering plants.
Variegated Evergreen Shrubs
Variegated evergreen shrubs provide loads of color and interest to the garden, year round. These shrubs all have green with white, yellow or cream colored leaves.
Broadleaf Evergreen Shrubs
Broadleaf evergreen shrubs provide color year round. The following evergreen shrubs are all broadleaf shrubs with green foliage even in the winter.
Weeping Evergreen Shrubs
Weeping form evergreen shrubs keep their foliage providing extra interest to any garden area. See six favorite weeping evergreen shrubs; broadleaf and conifers.
Weeping Deciduous Shrubs
A look at six of the best weeping form deciduous shrubs. Did your favorite make the list?
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 		Standard Shrubs Will Give Your Garden a Lift
Standard shrubs have a head of branches at the top of a clear stem. They give height to borders, make excellent lawn specimens and are ideal for tubs and large pots.
Pruning Flowering Shrubs
Planning a late winter or fall pruning of your shrubs (such as lilacs)? Read this first -- or you may be cutting off next season's blossoms.
Choose a Lantana for Aromatic Flower Clusters
The Lantana plant, an easy to grow shrub, with aromatic flower clusters and stunning colors, is valued for its long reliable flowering season.
Tree and Shrub Plants for Gardens by the Sea
Seaside gardens need protection against coastal winds and seaside erosion. The types of trees and shrubs are limited, but native plants already extant are good choices.
Grow Boxwood in Your Garden
Boxwood, the wintergreen garden shrub, is the world's oldest ornamental garden landscape plant, perfect for hedge planting and topiary.
Elderberry Plants Versus Japanese Maples
Japanese maples and elderberry plants have heavily dissected leaves and fall interest for the garden. However, Sambucus shrubs tolerate colder winter conditions.
Knock Out Roses - Low Maintenance Beauties
For the rose-challenged gardener, or those who can't devote a lot of time in caring for more traditional roses, the Knock Out Rose delivers long-season bountiful blooms.
Adenium for a Profusion of Pink and Red Flowers
The Desert Rose is a succulent plant that gives a profusion of pink and red flowers. A colorful garden plant, it is also ideal as a houseplant or potted patio plant.
Aromatic North American Herb Sweetfern
Sweetfern, also known as Fern Gale, is an aromatic herb native to eastern North America, but is not actually a fern.
Thimbleberry Shrub Native to North America
The native Thimbleberry shrub is one of the few rose family members without thorns.
Ornamental Shrub Has Red Fall Foliage
Burning Bush, also known as Winged Euonymus, was introduced from Asia in the 1860s, and is now considered a threat to native species in some areas.
Weigela Red Flowers from Cardinal Shrub
Cardinal Shrub (Weigela florida), very popular for generations, was enhanced through breeding into a wide assortment of cultivars.
Royal Encore Azaleas
The Encore line of azaleas do what traditional azaleas don't - they flower in spring, then return with an encore bloom performance from mid-summer through fall.
How to Grow Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas are easy to grow and maintain with the right growing conditions.
Versatile Viburnum Shrubs Suit All Garden Types
Viburnum is a versatile shrub with year round appeal. With showy fragrant flowers and attractive summer and fall foliage, the viburnum can grace all types of gardens.
Hydrangea for a Long Flamboyant Flowering Season
Ranging from pale white blooms to spectacular red mop-heads, hydrangeas are a vibrant ornamental shrub that adds long lasting summer and fall colors to all flowerbeds.
Hydrangea Macrophylla
Pair the best-loved flowering shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla, with your well-loved mother on Mother's Day.
Kerria Japonica
With flowers as golden as a sunrise, Kerria japonica brings sunbeams to the shadiest spots of a garden.
Elderberries
Elderberries have been used for millennia in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Many cultivars make pleasing landscape specimens, and most offer other benefits, too.
Growing Rhododendrons
Big or small, Rhododendrons can give punch to your landscape with their glorious flowers in spring.
Viburnum - The Fragrant Spring Flowering Shrub
Viburnums are the most under rated spring shrub. They produce beautiful flowers and leaves, can grow 4 to 12 feet high and 4 to 8 feet wide, and produce a fragrant scent
Mugo Pines in Nature and the Landscape
Mugo pines grown from seed usually outgrow their location due to genetic predisposition - read on and learn how to properly select plants for the garden.
Serviceberries in the Landscape
Shadbush, saskatoon, sugarplum, juneberry...all are names applied to the serviceberry, a North American native with plenty of landscaping potential.
Landscaping with Fragrant Native Shrubs
A look at four native shrubs that will be an aromatic start to a landscaping project.
Old Folk Remedies: Native Shrubs
A look at native shrubs and their natural remedies in old folk medicine.
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