Hummingbirds are voracious eaters who can easily visit thousands of flowers each day, so attracting more hummingbirds to your garden is all about growing the right plants that bloom at the right times ...

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Tea, flowers and friends await you at Summersweet Garden Nursery in East Hardwick, formerly known as Perennial Pleasures Nursery. Rachel Kane started Perennial Pleasures in 1980 when she was still a ...

* Botanical name: Clethra alnifolia 'Compacta' * What it is: Also known as 'Tom's Compact' summersweet, this plant is a compact variety of a Pennsylvania native flowering shrub. It produces upright, ...

Who says colorful annual and perennial plants get to have all the fun in late summer? Flowering shrubs such as bluebeard, summersweet clethra and Thunberg’s bush-clover may come late to the party, but ...

is a hard-working, sweet-natured plant. Nicknamed summersweet, Clethra thrives on moisture. Overindulges if the truth be known. If nothing's nearby to check her growth, she can expand indefinitely, by ...

'Bowles Golden' is an interesting grass that will give a dramatic splash of yellow in any wet area, growing to a height of around 2 feet. Shrubs are great for covering a lot of ground in a wet area, ...

Ever wondered what to do about that area in your garden that's constantly wet? Well you actually have a lot to choose from for interesting grasses, plants and shrubs that will thrive in soggy soil.