Shrubs for Landscaping
These reviews come directly from my own experiences in my own garden where I grow the plants that I review. Sometimes, nurseries send them to me for review and at other times, they come out of my own budget. In all cases, what I write about is what happens in my garden. I have no financial interests in any nursery or in promoting any plant.
One of the delights of growing shrubs is that you can design a shrub garden very much like a perennial garden. It's possible to match leaf color or contrast and season-long color and to include the relatively short bloom time of the flowers in your design.
As one form of landscape design, try not to look at shrubs as just a garden filler, instead look at them as the main backbone of the garden and use perennials and annuals flowers as ornaments. It's another way to create a low-maintenance garden.
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Here are some Garden Shrub Reviews
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Lilac 'Bloomerang Purple' Review I found Lilac 'Bloomerang Purple' on sale in mid-summer, brought the poor orphan home to install in a bright sunny part of the front garden. The soil ...
Spirea Double Play Big Bang Spirea is one of the more heavily planted of flowering shrubs because of its hardiness, heavy flowering and leaf coloration. In short, this plant has ...
Pearlbush Snow Day Surprise Pearlbush is one of those shrubs few people know about except for a brief moment in late spring or early summer when it springs into glorious bloom. And ...
Clethra Vanilla Spice or Summersweet Vanilla Spice The summersweet shrub has long been one of my favorite shrubs and I've planted them in every garden I've had. This new variety from Proven Winners called ...
Clethra 'Vanilla Spice'
