A low-maintenance flowering bush comes with the benefit of being a no-fuss shrubbery. It doesn’t require much water or pruning and thrives by being left alone. The best low-maintenance flowering ...

Looking to block out those nosy neighbors or conceal unsightly views in your yard? The trick is to use your flora and fauna to your advantage, creating a privacy bush, or 'green wall' in your yard.

For many plants, pruning in late winter can ruin your flower display. But for these summer bloomers, it'll have the opposite ...

The end of the summer and early fall can be a very special time for a certain heirloom shrub, the Confederate rose (Hibiscus mutabilis). The charming flowers are quite unique in that some varieties ...

Our exceptionally long growing season means we typically cut repeat-flowering roses back twice a year. The first pruning is done anytime from late January to mid-February, and the second in late ...

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 ...

Kick rose season off as soon as possible by growing the beautiful early-flowering forms, many of which benefit wildlife ...

I notice that when I go to cut off the dead flowers on my rose bushes, some of the past blooms have grown a ball shape below the faded flower. I wondered what they were and if I should really be ...

In late summer it’s time to think about pruning our roses. Roses respond best when they receive two major prunings each year. We prune our repeat-flowering roses, also called everblooming roses or ...

June. Strawberries, The Championships, light nights and roses. No matter how well your roses are claimed to be repeat flowering they will never bloom as well as they do in June. With of course, as we ...

There are no flowers and very few leaves on rose bushes now, and that's all the more reason why winter is the best time to ...