Shrubs
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Weeping Deciduous Shrubs
A look at six of the best weeping form deciduous shrubs. Did your favorite make the list?
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