Planting native hollies supports birds and wildlife, while adding year-round beauty to your garden. Native hollies feed birds, shelter wildlife, support pollinators, and provide evergreen foliage.
Looking for a winter garden task? Pruning plants, shrubs, and trees can help improve growth and health. Here are some you ...
"Whilst some dormant perennials, such as buddleia, roses, lavender and summer-flowering spirea will all benefit from being cut back in January, other perennials, including echinacea or rudbeckia, form ...
Winter pruning takes advantage of the plant’s dormancy. With sap flow slowed and leaves gone, structural flaws are easy to ...
One task that home gardeners can spend a lot of time on is pruning their shrubs. There are four reasons that you might engage in this task: to affect flower or fruit production; to direct the growth ...
Distinctive oak-shaped leaves and golden variegation set this handsome holly apart from all the others. Introduced by the Southern Living Plant Collection, Golden Oakland® Holly maintains an upright, ...
Holly is a nice evergreen addition to the landscape. It is not an easy to grow plant as it seems like it either thrives or struggles. It is very dependent on the right micro-climate for success. The ...
Actually, there aren’t any shrubs that really require trimming. They get by without it in the wild, after all. As Alan Titchmarsh notes in “How to Garden: Flowering Shrubs,” “Many gardeners struggle ...
Q: I have waited all season for my hydrangeas to bloom and had nary a one until now. Now, they are covered (see reader's photo). Why now? Nothing has changed that I know of. I live in Fayetteville. A: ...