Garden design

Flowering Bushes That Bloom in Spring
Flowering Bushes That Bloom in Spring
Garden design
Spring flowers and colours are a sight to be seen after a cold monochrome winter. Opt for some spring flowering shrubs for your garden and enjoy the colour fest – a one colour theme can have a stunning effect or a multicoloured theme using the sa ...

Shrubs Which Offer Privacy
Shrubs Which Offer Privacy
Garden design
If you want natural fences which offer privacy, you’ll be looking for fast growth, low maintenance evergreen or deciduous shrubs. For instance, the Tri-colored Willow Hedge is drought tolerant and thrives in zones from 5 to 9, according to the ...

Chosing Flowering Shrubs For Shaded Areas
Chosing Flowering Shrubs For Shaded Areas
Garden design
If you want to plant flowering shrubs in your garden but it’s mostly a shaded area, don’t despair, nature has provided us with many interesting flowering shrubs for all kinds of environments. For instance, you might have heard about Camelias. ...

Choosing Small Shrubs For Your Garden
Choosing Small Shrubs For Your Garden
Garden design
If you are new at gardening, small shrubs is the way to go as they are low maintenance and give a distinct air to your garden. They make landscaping much easier and are best planted in spring. When designing the landscape, do a bit of research as ...

Choosing a Shade Shrub For Your Garden
Choosing a Shade Shrub For Your Garden
Garden design
Every garden enthusiast knows that, while we can make up for some aspects like fertilizers for tough soil and abundant watering in dry climates, sunlight exposure is not something we can control – for instance if you try to grow a sun-loving shru ...

Landscape Shrub: Lingustrum
Landscape Shrub: Lingustrum
Garden design
The lingustrum is a low-height tree with waxy leaves which comes in different foliage colors and thrives in Florida, but there are types which grow well in Europe or Asia as well. Usually used as hedges, patio trees shrub borders or accent bor ...

Choosing And Pruning Juniper Shrubs
Choosing And Pruning Juniper Shrubs
Garden design
The juniper shrub is an excellent choice for creating a bit of variety in your garden and giving it an elegant touch. It has attractive foliage, comes in different shapes and sizes and if you choose the ground type, as opposed to the tree growing ...

Choosing Flowering Shrubs For Your Garden
Choosing Flowering Shrubs For Your Garden
Garden design
If you want to add a bit of color and interest to your garden then flowering shrubs are the way to go! If you prepare well, mixing different types, then you can have flowers in your garden no matter the season. As there are so many you can choose ...

Choosing Dwarf Shrubs For Your Garden
Choosing Dwarf Shrubs For Your Garden
Garden design
Make your garden look more beautiful, vibrant and deep with the help of carefully selected dwarf shrubs. By dwarf shrubs we mean those which don’t grow to more than 4-6 feet. They can be a great addition to your garden as they are usually low mai ...

Choosing Deer Resistant Shrubs For Your Garden
Choosing Deer Resistant Shrubs For Your Garden
Garden design
If deer fences and electrical fences still don’t keep the deer away from your beautiful and hard-worked garden or you simply want to go with the natural repellants then consider deer resistant shrubs. With the decrease in natural predators, ba ...