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Landscapers usually advise gardeners who are remaking an area in their yard to start with larger "foundation" plants. Shrubs can be used to add texture and form to your garden or they can provide an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. white spirea flowers Spirea, or spiraea, are popular perennial shrubs with pretty blooms in spring and summer. They're generally ...

Cathy Neustadt and I were meandering through her sumptuous Brookfield garden several years ago, admiring the color and variety of plants, when a small chartreuse seedling rising out the mulch caught ...

As planting season approaches, gardeners everywhere are contemplating ways to improve their landscapes. Spirea is a remarkably versatile, low-maintenance shrub prized for its graceful, arching or ...

A queen of the summer landscape border ... the family of Spirea. For years if you spoke the name Spirea, the vision folks saw dancing in their heads was that of the gracefully weeping white Bridal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... No one likes a troublemaker in the landscape, especially shrubs that get too full of themselves. The best way to keep a shrub from misbehaving is to plant ...

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