South Carolina Summers can be hot and dry, especially in August and July. My mother has an exposed south-facing wall where the sun beats all day in the driest months of the year. She has the hardest time getting anything to grow there. I thought I might make a short list of shrubs that she [...]
Viburnum are shrubs and small trees primarily used for their showy fragrant flowers, seasonal leaf color, and ornamental fruit. These deciduous shrubs provide a wonderful three-season show that creates a dynamic quality for a year-round interesting garden. They will pollinate, bloom, and fruit individually, but they are much more productive if planted in groups. They [...]
It seems strange to look outside in the green heat of summer and picture the barren coming winter. However, your garden will soon be dieing back in the face of coming winter yet again (it really does sneak up on me every year). However, your winter garden doesn’t have to be devoid of color and [...]
I was just looking around over in our Wayside Gardens Garden Center, and I happened upon some fantastic Sweetshrub. I asked one of our helpful Master Gardeners about the plant, and she told me that it’s x Sinocalycalycanthus ‘Hartlage Wine,’ a crossbreed of Chinese Sweetshrub and our native Carolina Allspice. All of these shrubs are [...]
If you're looking for a plant to add interest to your landscape in the winter, you can't do much better than Corylus 'Contorta.' This interesting shrub takes its unusual common name, Harry Lauder's Walking Stick, from the crooked cane that the legendary Scottish entertainer, Sir Harry Lauder, often used as a performance prop in the [...]
It will be November in less than a week, and many of you may have given up on your gardens for the winter. When most gardeners think of november, they think of raking leaves and cleaning out for the spring. But, if you have a garden project you are just itching to finish, don’t wait. [...]
For a lasting impression and year-round interest try evergreen shrubs. We are all familiar with hollies and boxwoods, the classic short hedges, the ones that reliably maintain there deep colors all year long. The reliability of evergreens is great for landscaping because it reduces the amount of maintenance required to keep an aesthetically pleasing garden. [...]
Euonymus, also known as ‘Spindle’ was given this name because, once upon a time it was used in making spindles used in spinning wool into yarn. It is native to most of the continents in the northern hemisphere. It home gardening it is used as an ornamental, a groundcover, or a hedge. The species and [...]
Winter’s icy mitts still have a stranglehold on most of the country, and countless gardeners are tapping their feet and wearing out their gardening catalogs. So, for those of you itching to get some green on your hands, here’s a little late-winter project that will brighten your home from Wayside Gardens. You are going to [...]
Many of the roses and fruit trees sold from Wayside Gardens are grafted plants. Grafted plants are simply your desired plants grown on top of a hardy rootstock. The top part of the plant, the part that matters, is called the scion. The scion bears all of the fruit, flowers, or foliage that we want. [...]