Articles related to "Growth Habit"

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

One way of adding interest to the garden is through the use of plants with pendulous, weeping growth habits.

See how to care for, maintain, and use camellias in the garden. More than beautiful winter flowers and evergreen foliage the camellia has a lot to offer gardeners.

Plants with mounding growth habit add weight and substance to a container planting combination by filling it in and creating a mass of color.

These plants all have strong vertical or upright growth habits to add contrast and interest in a container or hanging basket planting.

Summer is a time for enjoying the outdoors. These colorful summer container plants make it easy to create interest and drama in an outdoor porch or sitting area.

Snapdragons are charming long-time favorites when it comes to flowering garden play-things. See how to grow and use snapgdragons in the garden and some popular cultivars.

With flowers as golden as a sunrise, Kerria japonica brings sunbeams to the shadiest spots of a garden.

Russian Sage is not related to the Salvia family of plants, but provides gardeners with an amazing flower display in dry conditions.

Goldenrod is often thought to provoke allergies, but the goldenrod pollen does not bother allergies at all. All solidago species are attractive to native butterflies.

Highly fragrant, gently nodding flowers - these are the "roses with a hundred petals". Find out more about how to use and care for Centifolia Roses.

Putting together a seasonal container planting full of color and excitement means combining plants with contrasting growth habit, color and foliage texture.

Ayrshire roses have been used for hundreds of years in a variety of ways in gardens. Find out why, and how to care for your own piece of Old World charm!

These English Roses are developed from Alba roses giving them the wild-rose daintiness, gently nodding flowers and a lighter scent than other English Roses.

The foxglove is a stately plant that has been featured in gardens for centuries. This growing guide will help you care for, maintain and select the best foxglove.

Hostas are popular shade perennials because of their lovely form, foliage and colors. See how to care for hostas, use them in the garden and select popular choices.

Long used as a cutting flower or dried in everlasting flower arrangements, the Bachelor's Buttons also go by the common name of bluet or ragged sailor.

Bourbon roses were the first of the Old Garden Roses to have a repeating bloom period. These antique roses range in color and form but were very popular and fragrant...

Catmint was originally grown as an herb for tea and to keep flying pests out of the garden. Now, many cultivars are highly ornamental.

Shade loving, bright flowering and extremely winter hardy, Jacob's ladder is an excellent choice for a wide variety of gardens and landscapes.

Rosemary is a popular garden perennial useful in herb, fragrance and container gardens. See the different types of rosemary available and how to care for them.

A favorite garden shrub for generations the Hydrangea evokes charm and grace with its large flower clusters and long season of bloom. Grow a hydrangea in your garden!

Mugo pines grown from seed usually outgrow their location due to genetic predisposition - read on and learn how to properly select plants for the garden.

Burning Bush, also known as Winged Euonymus, was introduced from Asia in the 1860s, and is now considered a threat to native species in some areas.

Bright and colorful blooms that last for weeks make Cosmos a popular plant choice for gardeners. See more about growing and using Cosmos plants in your landscape.

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.

Ornamental spring-blooming trees can be either deciduous or evergreen. See how to grow some of the most popular spring flowering trees.

These yellow flowering plants are all great choices for hanging baskets and containers in the yellow themed garden.

There are several plants, both evergreen and deciduous, that have pleasing, striking or unique silhouettes. Learn how to select and use them effectively in the garden.

Large, shrubby roses with stems that are more flexible than typical hybrid teas make these excellent roses for trellis, pagoda, fences or other climbing situations.

What could be more wonderful than strolling through a flower garden full of scent and fragrance? Here are some top perennial picks for a pleasing fragrant filled garden.

Attractive evergreen shrubs can be trained up walls and fences as a colorful backdrop for other perennial plants and garden borders.

Lilacs are the perennial harbingers of spring, and a favorite deciuous shrub to include in fragrance garden, heirloom cottage gardens and more.

Whatever landscape a gardener has to work with, there is sure to be an iris he can grow to enjoy months of colorful flowers and attractive foliage.

Bright splashes of bold color in the spring, folk-lore and fairy rings. Primroses are popular plants and the stuff of legends from Shakespearean days. Grow them yourself!

Monarda didyma is highly attractive to hummingbirds, honeybees and butterflies, as well as providing weeks of colorful blooms each summer and early fall. Learn more!

A popular and charming cottage garden plant that adds grace to partly shaded gardens, the bleeding heart is a long-time beloved plant in heirloom gardens.

Many are surprised to find that the grand Redwood tree of California is a useful landscape specimen for utility,dependability and beauty.

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

Graceful clusters of bright flowers attract gardeners and butterflies equally. See why these charming plants are great for more than just hanging baskets and containers.

Aromatic foliage, historical herbal uses and attractive silver foliage are all part of the lovely package wormwood plants bring to the garden and landscape.

Started many years ago by David Austin's vision of breeding Old Garden Rose vigor with repeat blooming and color features of hybrid tea roses, this company knows a rose.

A strong accent plant reminiscent of heirloom gardens and cottage borders, Hollyhocks are a charming addition to any garden space. See how to cultivate the hollyhock.

An in-depth profile of a favorite herb plant, Lavender. Learn why this herb is prized in the garden and how to select and care for this popular edible perennial.

Thyme, an ancient herb plant long known to gardeners, can be added to every garden space. See how to grow the evergreen plant that comes in ground cover or bush forms

A favorite of English and Cottage Gardeners, the garden cranesbill is an excellent choice of flowering perennial for any garden situation. Here's how to care for them.

The vine commonly called bittersweet can actually be one of three different species. One is endangered, One is a plant pest - and one is a nightshade and can be lethal.

Weeping form evergreen shrubs keep their foliage providing extra interest to any garden area. See six favorite weeping evergreen shrubs; broadleaf and conifers.

Waffle Plants are colorful, happy in most home environments and only a little bit fussy. Learn how to care for this beautiful plant!

Astilbe plants are an excellent choice for gardeners to add color to a shade garden and flower heads also make good cut flowers.