No garden flower can hold a candle to the bloom bonanza of hydrangeas. They deliver year after year with an explosion of color in the garden and can act as the easiest centerpiece of all time when cut ...

That’s because one of the most common mistakes in planting a landscape is failing to realize just how big some plants get. The sizes on plant tags are good guides to growth proportions, but they’re ...

Q: I have a pocket-hanky front garden that's half in full shade and half in part sun. Do you have suggestions for what I can plant in the shade portion that will provide some color? A: A few of my ...

Hydrangea trees are shrubs trained and trimmed to look like a tree. They bring a vertical element to any space with their ...

Picture this: It's next summer and you're proudly taking a friend for a stroll around your landscape. "Here's Vienna," you say, "and there's Berlin. That's Venice over there. Oh, and here's Paris." ...

The second week of September is when autumn color starts to peek through the summer green, and hydrangeas may be the most spectacular flowering shrub in the landscape. In my own garden I have created ...

Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight' has become an increasingly popular, larger-size shrub to add to a part-sun garden. With its huge cones of green-tinged white flowers and its lush mid-green foliage ...

The third week of July is the beginning of hydrangea season. I love hydrangeas so much that I have an entire outdoor garden room devoted to shade-loving hydrangeas. (You can see the blue and white ...