by Polly
Green Living
For centuries gardeners have been pruning trees and shrubs as a way of defining areas of their property. A beautiful wall of greenery is less expensive to construct than a wall of brick or stone! Few plants can return so much for so little attention as shrubs, which are long-lasting, colorful, cold-hardy, fast-growing, drought-tolerant, pest-resistant [...]
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by Polly
Organic flowers
When it comes to spotlight the pure flower power, few summer-flowering shrubs can beat the huge blooms of hydrangeas. The best known of the bunch, big-leaved hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla), bears blue flowers when grown in acidic soil and pink flowers in near-neutral or alkaline soil. This hydrangea will bloom and grow well in morning sun [...]
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