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Use the visual sort below or the Main-Menu’s Shrubs pulldown tab to find and select specific shrubs, ferns and cacti.
You’ll find the most important details needed to grow and care for 137 common landscape shrubs and vines, 15 ferns, and 12 cacti in this convenient, complete, and easy-to-use guide.
We’ve organized the information in our guide to each landscape shrub, fern, and cactus in the same, compact, easy-to-use pattern to help you find the topics you want quickly and answer your questions.
Shrubs—flowering and foliage plants, ferns, and cacti—are the finishing touches we apply to home landscapes.
Generally larger and more durable than perennial plants yet smaller than trees, they fill the midground and borders of our yard, line our pathways and fencelines, create interesting textures with their foliage and fragrances with their flowers, and anchor our plantings from the soil’s surface to eye level.
When planning for shrubs in the landscape, remember that the blooms on most flowering shrubs are seasonal, lasting at most for several weeks or perhaps a month. Vary shrub heights in your landscape from low to tall in stature.
You can extend your yard’s seasonal color by selecting plants that flower in sequence, and you can add color in other ways.
Besides flowers, some deciduous shrubs have distinctive foliage color as their new leaves emerge; others have variegated, yellow, or bronze leaves; and still more turn brilliant colors in autumn.
Cold-hardy deciduous shrubs frequently keep brightly colored bark or berries after their foliage drops in autumn.
As your awareness grows of the possibilities available for these essential foundation plants, match your choices to your yard’s character and your home’s design as well as your garden’s climate, soil, and exposure.
Consult each plant’s listing to learn about the habits and needs of each plant you’ll grow in your home’s yard and landscape.
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