Want to attract more hummingbirds and other pollinators to your yard? The popular pollinators depend on visual cues, like abundant blooms, size, and color, to find the nectar that makes up their diet, ...
Hummingbirds are voracious eaters who can easily visit thousands of flowers each day, so attracting more hummingbirds to your garden is all about growing the right plants that bloom at the right times ...
Some evergreen container plants offer more than year-round foliage, adding fragrance, seasonal interest, and flexibility to ...
Want an evergreen shrub with the red and green of Christmas through winter and pretty scented blooms in spring? Look no ...
If you kept goats in Crete or Cyprus, chances are your animals browsed on common native shrubs called cistus. These are to the Mediterranean what sagebrush is to the American West, and thus share some ...
It may not always bloom profusely, but sweet pea shrub, Polygala fruticosa, blooms sporadically through most of the year. Even when not much color is evident from a distance, a few flowers can likely ...
Q: Could you please identify the following shrub? I have enclosed a sample (see reader's photo). It blooms with dark red flowers that are almost brown. They really smell good. The shrub is fairly ...
ITS BOLD, frond-like leaves are an icy green, and its 18-inch spires of burgundy flowers lure swarms of hummingbirds in search of sweet nectar. The honey bush, a soft-stemmed perennial shrub from ...
What I love most about this time of year – and unlike many people, I do love February because it is so full of hope and promise – is the way that spring begins to manifest itself in tiny hints and ...
“Is that a Sweet Shrub?” the woman asked as we stood talking near the weathered wooden gate and arbor leading into my front yard. “A what-what?” I asked in ignorance and intrigue. “A Sweet Shrub,” she ...
DENNIS: If we were ranking our favorite months from 1 to 12, January would be 519th on my list. On a good day. Needless to say (and yet, I say it), I am not, in any way, shape or form, a fan of the ...