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This article provides helpful advice for planting perennial ferns in garden beds and container gardens.

This article provides helpful advice for planting ligustrum and privet shrubs and trees in the landscape or in containers.

This article provides advice and tips for planting perennial salvia and sage.

Here are some tips for amending and improving various types of soil when planting many types of shrubs, trees, perennials and other ornamental plants.

Find helpful advice for fertilizing and watering dogwood trees...

Find out how far a tree, shrub or other plant should be spaced from a driveway, walkway, home, patio or septic system...

Find helpful Daphne planting and care tips...

This article provides general tips for how to plant a shrub.

Find a listing of the best bamboo you can use for creating a privacy screen planting or hedge

As a collector of Japanese maples for decades, and being one that enjoys growing most of them in pots, I learned that the single most important factor in growing healthy Japanese maples in containers or pots is the soil. Your Japanese maple's vitality starts with the health of its root system. The planting soil mix is the foundation for building a strong root system which in turn will help to develop a healthy...