Get Neil Sperry's gardening answers on yellow butterfly vine propagation, pruning figs and abelias, fertilizing winter ...

This shrub can be found throughout the South, and its popularity just grows and grows. The New Southern Living Garden Book describes, “This old-fashioned favorite has renewed popularity due to its ...

What: Abelia “Edward Goucher,” has an extended bloom time — from summer into late autumn. The abelia’s tubular, half-inch-long, soft pink flowers provide beauty and pollinator sustenance. The glossy ...

Abelias are graceful shrubs that deserve wider use in the landscape. They tolerate a range of light conditions, seamlessly bridging sunny and shady areas of the landscape to create harmonious ...

The author's rarely pruned hedge of Abelia x grandiflora provides months of butterfly and hummingbird watching. The author's rarely pruned hedge of Abelia x grandiflora provides months of butterfly ...

Now is the time for some winter pruning on ornamental shrubs and trees. From December to late March is the perfect time to prune most (but not all) of your trees and shrubs. There are several reasons ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

A compact flowering shrub with trumpet-shaped pink flowers from mid-summer to early fall. Pinky Bells™ has fingernail-sized, glossy green leaves that emerge reddish and larger flowers than most ...

Abelias first came to the United States in the early 1900s from eastern Asia and Mexico, and they have been garden favorites since that time. These are sturdy plants that grow best in full sun to part ...

During winter, most woody plants are dormant, as are the many diseases and insects that can potentially invade pruning cuts. Therefore, pruning when the weather is cold prevents your freshly pruned ...

What: The shrub Abelia ‘Edward Goucher’ offers an extended bloom time — from summer into late autumn — of tubular,½-inch-long, soft pink flowers provides beauty and pollinator sustenance. The glossy ...