Every month at our garden club meeting we ask members to bring in specimens of flowers, plants, trees or shrubs for an "In-Club Competition." It's our own monthly "show" and a learning experience for ...

The Nikko dwarf deutzia (Deutzia gracilis ‘Nikko’) is a woody shrub that has a mounding ground-cover growth habit, with branches tumbling across the ground. Nikko dwarf deutzia has small, linear ...

As a horticulturist I am always eager to answer questions about plants. Due to my love of plants and the fact that most people usually don t want me to talk, I am grateful for these opportunities.

Colorful and reliable flowering shrubs dress up gardens in the Northeast from spring through frost. Bright yellow forsythia is always one of the first shrubs to bloom in spring, and you'll see it ...

SPECIES: Deutzia (doot’zi-a; named for Johan van der Deutz) gracilis (gras’i-lis; meaning graceful, slender). Member of Saxifragaceae (sak suh fruh gay’see ee) family of about 1,200 species of ...

A deutzia renaissance is how my friend Dr. Gerald Klingaman, retired horticulturist, with the University of Arkansas, wrote about this new love that is occurring for this fuzzy heirloom that has been ...

The old-time favorite slender deutzia (Deutzia gracilis) has been regaining popularity in recent years. The compact, deciduous mounding shrub is ideal for foundation or mass plantings as well as mixed ...

'Nikko,' let's talk about ground cover in general. Ground covers sprawl, spread, run and colonize; they stretch their very being across a space. Consequently, what makes a plant suitable as a ground ...

Deutzias are deciduous shrubs related to Hydrangea. You rarely see them, because in the past the only varieties available were big, boring shrubs with little to offer once the spring-flower display ...

Sounding good enough to eat, Deutzia 'Raspberry Sundae' is an attractive flowering shrub with graceful arching stems of blooms, impressing across the garden. Available via the You Garden website for ...