Q: I have several red twig dogwoods that look beautiful each spring. By midsummer, they continue to grow new sprouts and ...

The Mexican shell flower (Tigridia pavonia) is a less common summer-blooming bulb that produces striking yellow, red, orange, ...

The white dogwood ( Cornus florida) is perhaps the most well-known white flower tree. There are around 60 species of dogwoods ...

Joe and Kathy Touchette’s thoughtfully designed landscape has earned Ramblewood Garden Club’s July Yard of the Month, ...

Unlike eucalyptus and dogwood, rhododendron grows "vast clusters" of white, yellow, purple, and crimson flowers. Though the shrub has a growing potential of 20ft tall, most grow to head-height and ...

Growing tips for shrub dogwoods: The straight species are often used for large areas, where they can form dense thickets. Smaller varieties are great for rain gardens and along streams or ponds ...

Growing tips for shrub dogwoods: The straight species are often used for large areas, where they can form dense thickets.

Alternative: For a beautiful color without the local impacts, try out Monkey flower, Rocky Mountain iris, Douglas iris, and skunk cabbage. For some non-native ornamentals that are less invasive you ...

Shrub dogwoods can be found growing in moist soils across North America. A few species you might find are: Tatarian dogwood (Cornus alba), Redtwig dogwood (Cornus sericea), and Gray dogwood ...

Sometimes bushes can become overgrown such as ninebark, hydrangea and dogwood. Every three to five years, I cut those to the ground and allow them to regrow from the root. With the dogwoods, all of ...

Red-twig dogwood (Cornus sericea) can serve as a beautiful background for shorter forsythia plants, especially in the winter, when their red stems look ornamental. Once forsythias' yellow blooms have ...

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