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Pair the best-loved flowering shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla, with your well-loved mother on Mother's Day.

Ranging from pale white blooms to spectacular red mop-heads, hydrangeas are a vibrant ornamental shrub that adds long lasting summer and fall colors to all flowerbeds.

Pruning hydrangeas correctly at proper times produces large, eye-catching flowers. Hydrangea plant structure and bud formation determine pruning methods.

Ornamental and flowering shrubs are usually thought of as sun-loving plants but these large, blooming plants all do well in part shade or full shade areas.

Wild Indigos are good meadow plants but also look attractive and are well-behaved in a perennial border, not crowding out their neighbors.

One of the easiest ways to create dramatic looking containers is to contrast fine and broad textures in your plant selections. Here are plants with large, broad leaves.

It can be difficult to find good plants for shaded areas in your garden design, but many attractive evergreen and flowering shrubs will grow well in a shady garden.

Hydrangeas are ornamental shrubs, with huge heads of white pink or red flowers, but acid soil gives purple or blue hydrangeas. Some accept full sun, most are shade plants

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!

A frequent frustration of gardeners in cold northern zone climates is hearing about perennial plants that their Southern neighbors enjoy. What plants will survive zone 3?

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

If you like blue flowers and need blue flowers for shade or prefer native plants with blue flowers, try planting some of these unusual flowers in your flower garden.

In garden designs, evergreen and flowering shrubs, in their huge variety, offer an ideal backdrop for other garden plants. Many can give year round colour and interest.

Hydrangeas for American Gardens by respected plantsman Michael A. Dirr is the first book to deal specifically with hydrangeas in North American landscape gardens.

Silver trees and shrubs are relatively scarce but there are some beautiful ones in commerce that can light up your yard. Most are drought tolerant.

In this group of plants all have names that reflect spring themes! A fun way to pay tribute to this fleeting but powerful time of the year.

If your forsythia, rhododendron or weigela has no flowers it's most likely caused by cutting it back at the wrong time. Knowing when a shrub blooms will solve the problem

Hydrangeas are easy-to-grow shrubs with large flowers in shades of pink, blue, purple and white. They bloom all summer with flowers that can reach 12 inches across.

Blue flowering shrubs are unusual but welcome accents to the flower garden. Use them alone or use them to form the bones of an all blue themed flower garden.

Perennials are those plants in the yard or garden bed that can be counted on to return and bloom every year. Here's a list of perennial plants anyone can grow.

Traditional Summer wedding bouquets include the favorite Rose; however, today's bride can choose flower wedding bouquets which include Gardenia, Jasmine and Hydrangea.

There are many shrubs available to choose from for summer flowers. Today's article takes a look at ones that are both loaded with flowers and easy to care for.

So, you're in the South now and you did as all good Southerners do--you planted your first hydrangea.

Trees and shrubs with gold foliage create a look of sunshine dappled amidst the more common greenery in the garden. And there are many to choose from.

There are so many fun ways to enjoy winter in the garden year-round including planting some of these winter themed plants.

Hydrangea and Celosia plants are good choices to grow in a cutting garden. The dried blooms from these shrubs and annuals are frequently used for flower arrangements.

A garden's best friend, besides the gardener, is its autumnal engineer, the orb weaver spider.