Shrubs

Some gardeners know arboricola capella as a dwarf umbrella tree. Arboricola capella is happy to grow outside in warm regions that never fall below freezing. In colder regions, arboricola capella...

Ornamental shrubs are low woody perennial plants that usually have several stems or trunks. Shrubs provide four-season beauty to a country garden or an urban landscape. Many shrubs present...

If you're planning to grow shrubs, don't despair if your garden or yard is shaded. Dozens of shrubs will grow in areas where shade varies from dappled to full.

Many people associate hollies with winter holidays. While it is true that holly branches are useful for creating winter decorating arrangements indoors, holly also is a useful and attractive...

Smoke bushes are large shrubs or small trees that gardeners use as hedge borders or as ornamental accents to landscape. Its foliage is a purple-green color in the growing season, changing to a...

Prolific mounds of bright potentilla shrubs--with their little pink, yellow, orange or purple blossoms and foliage resembling tiny ferns--are not hard to produce, even for the amateur gardener....

Shrubs are usually not damaged by cold itself during a freeze, but by a lack of water or water loss during freezes. Water in plants and the soil is very important, even during winter, as water...

Juniper trees and plants are a variety of lush evergreen. They do not shed leaves nor do they need to be cut back or down for the winter. Junipers can grow upward and tall, or they can spread...

Gardenias are unique shrubs in that their spectacularly scented blooms are accompanied by equally compelling foliage in the form of impossibly glossy deep green leaves. Gardenias have a natural...

The Photinia fraseri shrub, also known as red tip photinia, grows to be 12 to 18 feet tall and 8 to 12 feet wide. This ornamental shrub is often grown as a hedge or screen. In the spring, Photinia...

The burning bush is an ornamental shrub so named for its bright red fall foliage. The small pointed leaves turn a fiery shade of ruby as the temperature begins to drop, leaving a vivid dash of...

Shrubbery is one of the cornerstones of attractive landscaping. While trees provide shade and vertical lines and flowers provide bursts of color to your landscape, shrubs provide texture, color...

Heather is an evergreen branching shrub that is found throughout Western Europe, Northeastern North America and Siberia. According to the North American Heather Society, the term "heather" is...

Firesticks (Euphorbia tirucalli) is a frost-tender succulent plant that can become a large shrub in subtropical landscapes or a small container plant for the summer patio or sunroom. Given bright...

Croton, or Codiaeum variegatum, is a shrubby plant grown for its foliage and native to the tropics. It is from the plant family of Euphorbiaceae, or Spurge family.

Although lilacs have long been a staple in American gardens and landscaping, they are not native to the United States. These delightfully fragrant bushes reach up to 15 feet in height, according...

Red foliage plants are one of the most popular additions to the garden. A successful landscape has three layers: trees (the top), shrubs (the middle) and perennials and ground covers (the bottom)....

Holly is a decorative landscape plant. They range from spreading 1-foot-tall shrubs to 75-feet-tall trees. Hundreds of holly species are found around the world. They come in deciduous and...

Hardy, drought resistant and fragrant, lavender is a beautiful and useful addition to a garden. With proper pruning, lavender bushes can bloom again and again, giving years of beautiful purplish...

Azaleas are beautiful flowering shrubs. They bloom in a weeks-long mass of color. Azaleas are a type of rhododendron grown for hundreds of years. Azalea fans have hybridized over 10,000 different...

Unfortunately, most evergreen shrubs only get the once over with hedge shears, leaving problems to develop from inside the plant. It's important to remove dead, diseased or injured branches, and...