shrubs

How to take hardwood cuttings
Judith Adam
Taking hardwood cuttings in the fall is an easy, economical way to increase plants through vegetative reproduction. Reproduce your favourite shrubs.

When to prune spring-flowering shrubs
Judith Adam
Although spring-flowering shrubs such as lilacs can vary in their bloom times, there’s far less leeway about when to prune spring flowering shrubs.

Understanding blue hydrangea
Judith Adam
If you’ve purchased a small blue hydrangea in a pot for a holiday and then planted it in the garden, in subsequent years it has probably turned pink.

New plants for 2010
Garden Making
Eagerly anticipated by gardeners are the new plants that nurseries, seed companies and breeders roll out every year. It could ...