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  • … to a height of about 15 feet with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From May to June it produces greenish-white blooms. Its dense habit makes it a good candidate for …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … conditions. It has pink to blue-lavender blooms that attract butterflies and hummingbirds from May through August. It is a specimen in a border. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … shrub grows up to 3 feet high with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant pink blooms. It is a specimen in a hedge or a …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … shrub grows up to 4 feet high with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant pink blooms that attract birds and butterflies. It …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … shrub grows up to 3 feet high with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant pink blooms that attract birds and butterflies. It …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … shrub grows up to 8 feet high with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. From May through October it produces fragrant pink and white blooms that attract birds and …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … After a killing frost, remove annual plant material from your garden and add it to your compost heap. Any soilless mix from window boxes or containers can be discarded or kept aside for one more year. If used for a … Hardy water plants may remain in ponds as long as they don’t freeze. Protect small ponds from freezing by covering them with thin plywood sheets and layers of mulch or shredded leaves. …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … rubbing branches, or those that grow toward the center or the plant rather than outward, away from the interior. Fruit trees benefit from having their canopies opened up to permit more sunlight and air into their centers. Prune … begins to bloom. When pruning roses, make a 45-degree cut above a healthy bud, angled away from the center of the plant. If not done last fall, prune hybrid tea roses and grandiflora roses …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … with brilliant, 4.5-inch dark gentian blue/violet flowers with waxy lateral sepals. They grow from a single stem (monopodial), and the roots stretch out from the base of the stem. Aerial roots roam free of their containers and can grow up to 2 meters … (USDA Zones 9-11) and have epiphytic roots—meaning they derive moisture and nutrients from the air and support from another plant; few orchids grow in soil. Orchids usually prefer a …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … often seen perched while searching for small fish, or heard giving a rattling call as it flies from on perch to another. It nests in tunnels it digs into stream or lake banks. …
    Type: Birding