Hardy Shrubs For Sun

Regular deep watering is advisable. Leaves are lobeless or have 3-5 shallow lobes. Flowers (to 6-9” wide) are among the largest flowers produced by any perennial that is winter hardy to the St. Louis area.

For the most part, perennials can be planted year around, provided the ground isn't frozen. Hibiscus Lord Baltimore is valued for its showy late-summer display of enormous satiny blooms.

One of its most exciting attributes is its long bloom time from mid-summer to frost which occurs after many other plantings have finished blooming for the season. Grows 6-8' tall and 6' wide.

The spreading clumps form hedges. Very large carnation shaped flowers with incurved petals, freely produced in clusters. Older proven variety that's still quite popular! The Peony is an extremely long lived, hardy, shrub-like plant.

Glossy green foliage is divided into oval to lance-shaped leaflets. Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year.

Peonies are a standard of the perennial border, both as specimens and in groups. Fragrant and with good foliage. Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year.

Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers. For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so...

Each plant will flower for approximately 7-10 days. The spreading clumps form hedges. Peonies are a standard of the perennial border, both as specimens and in groups. Color is brilliant and of even tone with a silky luster.

Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended...

Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended...

Pruning a specific plant to look a specific way, involves art in creating a unique definition for a specific plant, and it involves science in understanding the physical growing habits of the plant to be pruned.

Planting hydrangeas near a concrete foundation or sidewalk will often affect the color since the pH of the soil may be raised considerably by lime leaching out of these structures, making it difficult to obtain blue.

Try to cure the problem before adding fertilizer. When pruning large hydrangeas, pruning can be a general shaping or shearing of the plants or it can be a severe pruning that significantly reduces the size of the plant.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Limelight Hydrangea a good deep watering. If you are a beginner at growing plants Limelight Hydrangea is very easy to grow however it may be helpful to know...

Plants that are deficient in Potassium, are usually growing more slowly than normal, have fewer flowers and seed, and are more susceptible to disease than plants with adequate levels of Potassium.

A very large shrub in the ground will take 2 – 3 cups spread around the drip line of the branches (not next to the trunk). These observations should give you a good idea of how the plant tends to grow, and also how and when you should prune the plant.

Let's Dance Starlight Hydrangea, is a compact lacecap-like cultivar that is part of the Let's Dance Series of re-blooming hydrangeas. Another method for lowering the pH is to add organic matter to the soil such as coffee grounds, fruit and vegetable peels,...

When dried, the arrangements can last almost forever. If you can find a fertilizer formulated for shrubs and trees, this fertilizer would work well on hydrangeas. Let's Dance Rhythmic Blue Hydrangea is one of the hydrangeas that can be “customized”...

In general gardening terms, pruning is probably the most misunderstood gardening chore, and certainly, the chore that is most likely neglected. When we specifically look at pruning with regards to hydrangeas, this misunderstanding and negligence can be...

A less expensive fast release fertilizer such as a 10-10-10 will work just as well if applied twice during the summer. Large hydrangeas that have been severely pruned have the advantage of a large root system that has excessive capacity, and its roots...

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Little Quick Fire Hydrangea a good deep watering. If you are a beginner at growing plants Little Quick Fire Hydrangea is very easy to grow and will make you...

Flowers on new growth. Can be used to help aid in this process and also provide plants with a good soaking due to the slow release of the water into the root-zone of the plant. Excellent results have been reported by visitors to this site after using...

Pruning a specific plant to look a specific way, involves art in creating a unique definition for a specific plant, and it involves science in understanding the physical growing habits of the plant to be pruned.

Although it is tempting to spend less time by not raking the mulch back during fertilization, the results will be less than desirable, if the fertilizer is applied on top of the mulch.

A less expensive fast release fertilizer such as a 10-10-10 will work just as well if applied twice during the summer. Large hydrangeas that have been severely pruned have the advantage of a large root system that has excessive capacity, and its roots...

In general gardening terms, pruning is probably the most misunderstood gardening chore, and certainly, the chore that is most likely neglected. When we specifically look at pruning with regards to hydrangeas, this misunderstanding and negligence can be...

Although the three elements just mentioned are the major elements necessary for good plant performance, there some minor elements that are just as important in consideration of plant nutrition.