Extend the Season With Winter Pots
As the colors of summer and fall begin to fade, converting your summer pots to winter displays can brighten the landscape and your spirits. According to the design staff at Embassy Landscape Group, the possibilities for winter themed pots are endless. A huge combination of materials, living, cut and artificial, are available …
Who's Showing Off Today?
With fall colors waning, structural drama is grabbing our attention now and the native deciduous shrub Buttonbush is giving an outstanding show. An excellent rain garden plant, Buttonbush grows in moist, humas rich soil in full sun to part shade locations. It has fragrant white blooms in June and July that attract …
Plants for Your Shade Garden
Selecting the right plant for your shade garden can be a challenging task, especially if you are new to shade gardening. To get you started, Dan Nelson, lead designer at Embassy Landscape Group, has shared ten of his favorite shade plants with us. To make the choices even easier, we have divided …
Who's Showing Off Today?
Let’s welcome an unfamiliar face to the fall color spectacular! Diervilla is a native shrub that seems to have it all. This non-invasive 3 to 4 foot deciduous shrub will thrive in sunny or shady conditions, is drought tolerant and deer resistant. It sports yellow flower clusters all summer long and has superb …
Design Principles for Shade Gardens
Ask five “weekend gardeners” to name the plants they would put in a shade garden and you will most likely get a series of sighs and shrugged shoulders and then five variations of hosta, ferns, impatiens and begonias, with possibly a few caladiums thrown into the mix. The overall attitude usually implies that …
Who's Showing Off Today?
Revered for their fall color, the maples are putting on quite a fall show of color here in the Midwest. Although many of the varieties of maples on the market today originated in Asia, there are about 12 varieties that are native to the United States, with the familiar sugar (rock) maple …
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