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How to Grow: Attracting Pollinators To Your Garden

Watch this video on how to create and care for a pollinator garden in your yard with information on plant varieties, habitat, water and shelter. Learn about the best ways to attract butterflies, bees, birds and other pollinators to your garden. Listen to podcast: Pollinator gardens are hot! Maybe it's the press the two poster children of pollinators, Monarch butterflies and honey bees, are getting. Or it could be just a higher awareness of the role pollinators play in our food system and ecosystem. But it seems everyone is talking about...

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FruitPodcast Shrubs

How to Grow: Blueberries

Watch this video on caring for blueberries in your garden including fertilizing, watering and pruning. Learn about grow and care for blueberries including the best varieties to grow for your location. Listen to Podcast: podcast transcript How to Grow: Blueberries I don’t know why more people don’t grow blueberries (Vaccinium). They’re one of the easiest and most beautiful fruiting shrubs to grow in our climate. They have few pests and diseases, can withstand our cold winters, and can produce healthful fruits for 30 years. What else could...

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Shrubs Vines

How to Grow: Bougainvillea

Sun Requirements Full sun Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Blooms on and off almost year round Mature Height x Spread Depending on the species can be 3 feet to 30 feet tall and wide. Bougainvillea are vine-like shrubs that produce an abundance of colorful blooms almost year round in USDA zones 9 to 11. They are a “go-to” landscape plant in many California, Arizona, Texas and Florida yards. Although the many bougainvillea can grow to 30 feet tall and wide, newer dwarf versions keep the shrub a more manageable 4 to 6 feet tall and wide. The...

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How to Grow: Boxwood

Buxus spp Other Name common box   Sun Requirements full sun, part sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Blooms in spring are not significant. Mostly grown for its evergreen foliage   Mature Height x Spread 4 to 15 feet x 4 to 15 feet   Added Benefits deer resistant   Boxwood is a standard evergreen shrub that is often used in formal gardens throughout England and Europe. We certainly can grow boxwoods in New England, too. It’s best grown in a formal hedge to define a space or used to create a knot garden. It’s also a good shrub...

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Perennials Shrubs

How to Grow: Butterfly Bushes

Learn how to grow butterfly bushes, including how to plant and grow them. Listen to podcast: podcast transcript How to Grow: Butterfly Bushes Buddleia davidii   Other Name Summer lilac   Sun Requirements full sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Late summer to fall in colors of purple, white, pink, red, yellow, and lavender   Mature Height x Spread 5 to 8 feet x 4 to 6 feet   Added Benefits Attracts hummingbirds, attracts beneficials, deer resistant   The butterfly bush as aptly named. It is a magnet for butterflies,...

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Shrubs Trees

How to Grow: Camellia

Sun Requirements Part shade or dappled shade Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Depending on the species they bloom either in winter/early spring or fall Mature Height x Spread 6 to 15 feet tall and 5 to 7 feet wide, but there are varieties as small as 2 feet tall and as large as 20 feet tall Camellia is a prized evergreen shrub or tree that brightens a shady area in your landscape with beautiful rose-shaped flowers. Camellias are hardy in USDA zones 7 to 10 with a few varieties tolerant of Zone 6 winters. There are two common species of...

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Fruit Shrubs Trees

How to Grow: Citrus

There’s nothing like the taste of home grown citrus. Unfortunately, only gardeners in USDA hardiness zones 8 and warmer usually get this experience. But even gardeners in colder climates can enjoy some citrus in containers grown as houseplants in winter and moved outdoors in summer. In warm climates citrus can grow into medium-sized trees (20 to 30 feet). But grown in a container they stay manageable and dwarf. How to Use in Foodscaping Outdoors grow citrus trees in the yard as a specimen plant or grow dwarf varieties in a mixed shrub...

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Shrubs Vines

How to Grow: Climbing Honeysuckle

Lonicera sempervirens   Other Name trumpet honeysuckle   Sun Requirements full sun, part sun, part shade   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Early to mid summer in colors such as red, orange and yellow   Mature Height x Spread 10 to 20 feet x 3 to 6 feet   Added Benefits attracts hummingbirds, attracts beneficials, native, deer resistant   This climbing version of the widely grown, native honeysuckle has the beauty and toughness of the bush honeysuckles, with a climbing habit that makes it a great plant for pergolas, arbors and...

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Garden Design & Care Shrubs

How to Grow: Climbing Roses

Learn how to grow climbing roses including information on varieties and pruning. Listen to podcast: My mom loves roses, so I recently took her to Elizabeth Park in West Hartford. This is one of the first municipal rose gardens in the country. Started in 1904, it features 15,000 rose bushes and 800 varieties. And it's in full bloom now. One of the features of the Elizabeth Park Rose Garden is the climbing roses on the arches around the gazebo. When in full bloom, it's stunning. No wonder brides want their wedding pictures taken here. It got...

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Groundcovers Shrubs

How to Grow: Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster spp   Other Name rockspray cotoneaster   Sun Requirements full sun, part sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Pink flowers appear in spring followed by red berries and colorful fall foliage   Mature Height x Spread 2 to 3 feet x 5 to 8 feet   Added Benefits drought tolerant, fall color, deer resistant   Cotoneaster is a low growing, colorful shrub with attractive small flowers, berries and fall foliage color. The long spreading branches look particularly attractive when grown to cascade down a wall or bank.  You...

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