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Some plants look better naked. Those deciduous shrubs which display attractive, colourful bark can be used to create dramatic effects which enliven the garden in winter.

Skillful early summer pruning practices for spring-flowering deciduous shrubs are essential for DIY landscape gardeners. Proper pruning promotes healthy, vigorous 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.

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.

Trees bring gravitas. Every white flower garden or moon garden needs a special white flowering tree, either nearby or in the garden itself.

See the best of the new shade and ornamental trees available to home gardeners in 2008. Healthy plants, unique forms and beautiful colors.

Six of the best deciduous trees with weeping growth habit and pendulous silhouettes. Is your favorite listed?

Planting trees and shrubs too close to each other and to structures is a common landscaping mistake. Here are suitable planting distances for 25 familiar species.

Snowy vistas can be pretty flat and dreary. Introducing cultivars with interesting bark can bring winter's dormant landscapes to life.

The cold months are perfect for taking hardwood cuttings from shrubs and trees to create more plants for your garden or yard.

Each state in the United States of America has a formal flower. Some blooms are claimed by more than one place. Check this complete state by state listing.

April: Landscaping at Suite101 "Link of the Month." Away.com offers an archive of travel photographs that includes galleries devoted to international garden landscapes.

Fall shrubs with berries not only add interest to the late season landscape, but they also provide added nutrients for the many birds that are still around.

A look at some of the native trees that will bring flocks of birds to the landscape when they are planted.

Fall Color Occurs as the Result of Temperature and Daylight Changes. Trees Species and Selection is Best Made in the Fall to pick a Tree with Desirable Color.

Fall brings not just the reds and yellows of turning leaves, but also the bright colors of berries on many common trees.

Most flowering trees and shrubs can be coaxed into their spring dresses in the middle of winter.

Many are surprised to learn that there is a cold hardy hibiscus that will grow in wet swampy conditions, bloom all season and draw hummingbirds to the garden.

Many world-renowned gardens utilize both natural and manipulated microclimates to achieve drama and beauty. Designers of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens in Kent, England and Butterstream Gardens, in County Meath, The Irish Republic exploited existing structures like old brick walls and buildings along with natural influences such as compass direction, water, and large trees. The Isle of Wight surrounded by waters of the Solent is a "working example" of bodies of water influencing a regional or neighborhood microclimate.

Organic flower gardening requires much less work if you use plants that evolved in your city, state, region, or country. You may think of native plants as wild flowers.

California had many native plants prior to the arrival of the Europeans; however, many of the indigenous plant species found in California may now be under threat.

Every white garden or moon garden needs white flowered shrubs, either as a surrounding hedge or within the garden itself as an accent. Consider some of these!

Many garden plants don't need pruning, but for others it's essential to ensure healthy growth and a good crop of fruit or flowers. Follow these tips and pruning is easy.

Planted together Narcissus (daffodil) bulbs and specialty (minor) bulbs lead to pest-resistant, perennial and naturalized landscape garden designs.

Where space permits only one or two small trees in the garden, then in order to get value for money it's important to select specimens with several seasons of interest.

Hedges comprised of native plants make the most wildlife friendly garden boundaries, providing food, nesting sites and shelter for birds, small mammals and invertebrates.

A shaded white garden or moon garden can be the most magical of all: sharp contrasts of white flowers and silvery foliage against deep shadows and dark corners. Oooh!

"Chinese" Wilson's first trip to China for Harvard's Arnold Arboretum (MA) began in January 100 years ago. His goal? Introduce Asian plants to western landscapes.

Beacon Hill (Boston, MA) residents fashion hidden backyard gardens. Garden retreats come into being from small pieces of degraded urban soil and shaded settings.

When spring arrives in the northeast USA, the earliest signs are subtle but incontrovertible. The natural world is waking as the days get longer.

Spring brings the blooms of huckleberry, rhododendron and a profusion of other flowering shrubs and small trees in forests from northern California to British Columbia.

Pruning is an essential gardening chore that is best done in late winter for most trees and many shrubs and bushes to keep them well-shaped, healthy and productive.

Canada has a spectacular variety of wildflowers and habitats.

These twelve plants will make your shade garden the envy of the neighborhood.