When you look for shrubs to plant in April, garden centers and nurseries will be full of container shrubs primed to be ...

Animals you might find in a hedge Hundreds of bugs live in and feed from native hedge plants. You can get a rough idea of the number of animals living there by gently tapping the hedge with a ...

They recommend planting nectar-rich shrubs, and plants that flower in late summer and autumn. In the 59 gardens the researchers looked at, non-native plants provided 91% of all nectar. Out of these ...

(The updated 2025 guide will be available on 5/9.) Native plants are flowers, grasses, trees and shrubs that have inhabited Michigan since before European settlement. Each year, we collect native ...

Learn the differences between native and perennial plants, including their definitions and how climate affects their growth.

Some people worry that native plants won’t fit a neat, trim aesthetic. While some are best left with their natural shape, others are well suited to trimming or even hedging. These include ...

Here's the dilemma: Fruits and vegetables are among the neediest of flora because they require lots of nutrients and water to ...

Teaching High Desert students about the use of native plants in landscaped yards has many benefits. First of all, native shrubs like creosote, rubber rabbitbrush, Mormon tea and California ...

The simple solution is to add more native plants while reducing the amount of ... removed all the leaf litter from beneath a lovely hedge of seagrape along the Intracoastal. Those leaves provide ...

Azaleas are popular shrubs for filling flower beds or containers with a bounty ... The root ball wants to sit just beneath the soil surface. Buttonbush is a native plant in North America suitable for ...