Liven up cold-season gardens and homes with a gorgeous winterberry bush. The berries are a favorite of hungry winter birds.

The beautiful pomegranate shrub is well-suited for our valley. It is easy to grow, long-lived, withstands neglect and produces fruit to eat fresh or make into jellies and jams. This plant offers ...

Whether you're growing shrubs for privacy, to add height to a garden space, to cover or hide an unsightly structure, or simply for the heck of it, a flowering shrub can be an easy way to get the best ...

Beautyberry bushes certainly live up to their name, thanks to their striking clusters of purple or white berries throughout fall and winter. The shrubs are low maintenance, though regular pruning will ...

Hold on - this is not the fragrant annual sweet pea flower you remember from home (I'll write about those gems in a future article). This plant is an evergreen shrub producing vibrant violet/purple ...

One of the highlights of my June garden is when the beauty bush (Kolkwitzia amabalis) blooms. It's like giant cloud of cotton candy as big as a garage. Twenty years ago, I almost dug it out. When we ...

So planting fever has grabbed you, and you're heading out to your favorite nursery or thumbing through a catalog to see what's available in shrubs. Decisions, decisions. Should your shrubs offer tasty ...

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BY: Lee Reich So planting fever has grabbed you, and you're heading out to your favorite nursery or thumbing through a catalog to see what's available in shrubs. Decisions, decisions. Should your ...