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Pyracantha ‘Golden Charmer’ – Growing and Care Tips

By John Moore

Pyracantha ‘Golden Charmer’ An outstanding, compact and bushy evergreen shrub that offers year-round interest. This hardy evergreen shrub with sharp spiky branches and small dark glossy green leaves produces clusters of the most beautiful white flowers throughout the summer. These are followed by bright orange berries in late Autumn and Winter. Quick Facts Other name: Firethorn ‘Golden Charmer’Grows in exposed and sheltered areasProduces clusters of white flowers in summer and orange berries in late autumn and…

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Growing Mahonia aquifolium Apollo – Oregon-grape

By John Moore

Mahonia Apollo This generally pest-free evergreen shrub is also known as the ‘Oregon Grape’ shrub. It is an excellent, vigorous, eye-catching shrub ideal for planting as a groundcover plant or in a small shrub border shrub as its forms a dome type shape. Relatively drought tolerant it is as at home in a woodland shaded setting just as much as it is in an open sunny area of the garden in more exposed areas. It will flourish in…

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10 Small Evergreen Shrubs Perfect For All Season Interest

By John Moore

Small Evergreen Shrubs that offer ‘Year Round Interest’ Evergreen shrubs, for anyone who is not familiar with the term, is a plant that does not drop their leaves for the winter like ‘deciduous’ plants (plants that drop their leaves for winter) do. This means, that with some careful consideration, you can plant a garden that has all year round interest and evergreen plants, in particular, are good for all year round colour. Evergreen plants that are…