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0 vote!	Plan for a beautiful summer garden ...against each other, the flagstone. What stands out to you?" ""You may realize you prefer evergreens to deciduous trees, or shrubs to wildflowers. You might like an English formal garden rather than a riotous Mediterranean style. ""You'll see that "plants...
0 vote!	An enchanted bohemian retreat ...is filled with wild beauty -- aloe groves, bellflowers and ferns, a chaotic flurry of evergreen shrubs and vines. Wind chimes, glittering beads and Moroccan lanterns hang with pleasing randomness from trees and windows. Bells dangle from doors. The aroma...

0 vote!	Q&A With Sandy Feather: Some sweet potatoes aren't so sweet ...and are native to the southeastern United States, from Virginia south into Florida. These broadleaved, evergreen shrubs bloom in spring with drooping clusters of white, urn-shaped flowers. They are attractive landscape plants when not disfigured by leaf...
0 vote!	More North Texas Gardening ...turn on your sprinklers two or more times a week, you might be overwatering.""If your evergreen shrubs need pruning, now is a good time for it. But don't bring out the hedge clippers. We're talking about strategic pruning that enhances the health of a...
0 vote!	10 plants that like wet winters and dry summers ...great in a vase. Grow in part to full shade.""The horizontal habit of this low-growing evergreen shrub makes it a good choice to contrast with vertical and rounded shapes in the garden. The handsome foliage is the most important characteristic here. It...

0 vote!	Jessica Damiano: Prune your woody plants now ...Rejuvenative is a severe cutting-back performed with the intention of rejuvenating an older plant."" Broadleaf evergreen shrubs should undergo only selective pruning, and they can take it at any time of year."" Narrow-leaf evergreens should undergo...
0 vote!	Gardening tips: Neil Wormald on summer vegetables ...them. ?Ustie? is available from Thompson & Morgan (0844 573 2020, ""Desfontainia spinosais a compact, evergreen shrub that reaches 5ft high, with a similar spread, and has shiny, dark-green, holly-like leaves and magnificent red and yellow tubular flowers...
0 vote!	Southern Indian azalea ..." Growth habit: Rounded dense evergreen shrubs growing to 10 feet tall and wide. The leaves are medium to deep green, oval to lance-like and growing to 3 inches long and half as wide."" Light: Plant in filtered sun for best growth; most tolerate full sun...
0 vote!	Ask Helen Chesnut: Why use Latin names? ...Cut back flowering stems to about 15 cm (six inches) after the blooming period.""Another tough, evergreen shrub is boxwood, which is available in various ultimate sizes. I have had two dwarf, variegated boxwood plants in containers for years. They do need...
0 vote!	If you think Xeriscaping is all rocks and cacti, think again ...to aerate lawns and mow to a height of three inches, check sprinkler systems, prune evergreen shrubs as well as dead wood and foliage off other shrubs and perennials, work compost into the soil, and plant new trees and shrubs as needed. In summer, plant...
0 vote!	Thrifty gardening guide ...would take to fill in the space covered by a handsome flowering shrub or compact evergreen with colourful foliage. ""Shrubs and small trees also tend to be less labour intensive, as there?s no deadheading or dividing, and usually only a light annual...
0 vote!	Brighten your garden without the digging, weed pulling ...pots and plants in pleasing compositions, you can even work in perennials, grasses, and dwarf evergreen shrubs to provide year-round interest. "" Best of all, container gardens are close-up delights. They invite you to slow down, notice the details, and...
0 vote!	Arboretum to host educational event on container gardening ...Terrace, including many different types of succulents and aloes, and combinations of perennials and larger evergreen shrubs with annuals, Patterson said.""When we select plants for our containers, we try to put together interesting color combinations and...
0 vote!	Plat profile: Yellow cestrum tolerates harsh garden conditions ...": A large, sprawling evergreen shrub. Leaves are simple, waxy and lance-shaped with an acute or pointed tip. The leaves are to 6 inches long with long petioles (leaf stem) and are alternate on the stem. Leaves have a wet-dog smell when crushed. Flowers...
0 vote!	NATURE IN SHORT / Hisakaki a sacred shrub among Japan's wild flowers ...all but the most determined searchers. One of these is the hisakaki (Eurya japonica), an evergreen shrub in the Theaceae, or Tea Family (tsubaki-ka). This is a plant that actually shuns strong sunlight, preferring the deep shade underneath big evergreen...
0 vote!	Plans are the seed to good landscaping ...fall. Grows in sun or partial shade. Height: 5 feet.""Azalea. Blooms late spring. Deciduous or evergreen shrub. Full to part shade. Height: 5 to 7 feet.""Oakleaf Hdrangea. Foliage shaped like oak leaves, white-to-pink blossoms in spring, dark green in...
0 vote!	Japanese plum yew has looks and personality ...child for a 4-inch plant from a specialty catalog.""But what if the plant is an evergreen shrub with very interesting year-round foliage, does well in shade and comes with the two gardening words you most want to hear: "Deer resistant"?""That would be the...
0 vote!	A mixed bag of gardening tidbits ...it receives in the summer, the redder the foliage will turn in autumn. It's an evergreen shrub that takes average watering and little else. Its response to any type of stress is to shed its lower leaves. When this occurs, the plant looks "stalky," as our...
0 vote!	For a colorful addition, consider shrubs ...covered with tons of blooms is ?Pink Breath of Heaven.? Tiny pink flowers cover this evergreen shrub from late winter right through spring, continuing with scattered blooms at just about any other time. Their delicate branches are fragrant when bruised, s...
0 vote!	HEAVEN SCENT ...the rich aroma will carry from one lot to the next. It's also an outstanding evergreen shrub, from 5 to 7 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide.""This is another "sleeper." Its flowers aren't especially noticeable, yet the fragrance is divine. It does best in an...
0 vote!	A 2nd Ethiopian pleads guilty to federal charges ...a plant called khat flown into Salt Lake City from Ethiopia. Khat is a flowering evergreen shrub that is chewed like tobacco in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It is considered a narcotic and is illegal in the United States as well as parts of...
0 vote!	Field naturalists get 2nd island ...said. "" As a result, favoured deer food such as elderberry and yew, a low evergreen shrub, thrive there."...
0 vote!	Plant profile: Milkwort a new plant for your Florida garden ...Reservation southwest of Miami and the home of U.S. Plant Introduction Garden since 1923."": An evergreen shrub. The slightly glossy, bright green leaves are alternate on the stems, up to 2 inches long and a half-inch wide and oval to elliptic shaped. The...
0 vote!	Extending Salvias' Season ...a red cultivar named San Carlos Festival bloom from May through November. It is somewhat evergreen and more a small shrub than a perennial. Indeed, cutting it back hard may kill it. "" If you don't like its pinkish hue, you could interplant your May Night...
0 vote!	Garden advice: Thorny problems ...to thinly spread some clippings out of sight under the base of boundary hedges or evergreen shrubs, while storing the rest in open bags or bins and adding it gradually to the compost heap in layers between dry ''brown'' waste, such as shredded cardboard o...
0 vote!	Eat Sheet: Tea ...tea?many of which are not technically tea. Tea is made from the leaves of the evergreen shrub "", which grows in mountainous regions around the world. Herbal teas, also called tisanes, are made from the flowers, roots, or leaves of other plants, like...
0 vote!	Drug khat finds its way to New England ...had seen the drug in New Hampshire. Law enforcement officials believe the plant ? an evergreen shrub native to East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula ? was headed to Maine where there is a population of Somali immigrants in the Lewiston area.""Several...
0 vote!	Add the right 'bones' to your garden ...and tie it to the surrounding landscape. Unfortunately, these house-hugging plantings frequently consist of stiff evergreen shrubs that do little for the house they adorn. Even worse, they're often sheared into something closer to green loaves of bread...
0 vote!	Zilker Garden Festival on tap ...tolerant of well-draining soil and dry sites.""Blooming all over Central Texas this month, this attractive evergreen, multistem tree or shrub has distinctive pendulous clusters of lilac blooms that smell strongly of grape Kool-Aid or bubble gum. The showy...
0 vote!	Conifers: Backbone of the garden - Staten Island Advance ...a wonderland, even during the long winter months, if it includes conifers. Conifers are cone-bearing evergreen trees or shrubs that have needle or scale-like leaves. "" It isn't always easy to select trees and shrubs for the garden. Where the surrounding...
0 vote!	Ethiopian admits importing illegal plant ...arranged to be shipped by Sherif Kadir Sirage, who is also charged.""Khat is a flowering evergreen shrub that is chewed like tobacco in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It is considered a narcotic and is illegal in the United States as well as part...
0 vote!	Sharon Morrisey ...1) foundation plantings for the west side of the house (mostly shade)...something the size of evergreen shrubs, but with a little more interest (we were contemplating boxwoods that would get about 3 ft. tall). 2) a small tree or shrub to serve as more of...
0 vote!	Gardeners urged to use caution ...ornamental grasses such as pink muhly grass, which sports pink blooms in the fall, and evergreen shrubs such as dwarf yaupon, a small round leaf holly, Crump said. Above all, avoid impulse purchases -- choose plants instead after considering where you pla...
0 vote!	Alternative medicine: Tea ...been cultivated in Asia especially in Assam, Ceylon, Japan and Java. ""Tea is a small evergreen shrub which grows 2 to 3 meters tall and has dark green, lanceolate or elliptical leaves. ""It is noteworthy that the processing degree determines whether tea...
0 vote!	Managing stress ...symptoms, Botryosphaeria infection is often the cause.""Italian buckthorn (Rhamnus alaternus) is a fairly popular, broadleaf evergreen large shrub/ small tree. A Mediterranean native, it is well adapted to hot summers and it can serve as a fairly hardy,...
0 vote!	A Wreath For All Seasons ...leaving it wild and bushy as your nature directs, wire on overlapping sprigs from any evergreen tree or shrub that has lost a branch to wind or winter ice, or that can spare a few snippets of greenery from an off-growing limb. Lacking evergreens, dress...
0 vote!	Search icNewcastle for: ...the display going through the winter.""If you want the containers to look good now, choose evergreen shrubs such as skimmia mixed with spring-flowering plants, now abundant at your local garden centre, such as primulas, trailing ivy and a few ready-grown...
0 vote!	Home & Garden Tips ...corner and the warm temperatures will help to force out new buds after pruning. All evergreen plants and summer-flowering shrubs should be pruned during this time. "" Spring-flowering shrubs, such as azaleas, forsythia, flowering quince and dogwoods,...