Tag: planting shrubs

  • 8 Of The Fastest Growing Plants For Privacy Screens

    8 Of The Fastest Growing Plants For Privacy Screens

    I’ve been looking for the fastest growing plants for privacy screens in our yard. And let me tell you, we need some fast growing shrubs to help make our yard more private. Especially considering that when we bought our home it had virtually no shrubs and only a four-foot-tall chain-link fence surrounding the entire yard.…

  • Planting Jasmine? 5 Tips For Growing Beautiful Jasmine Plants

    Planting Jasmine? 5 Tips For Growing Beautiful Jasmine Plants

    I love planting jasmine shrubs and vines… I’ve loved their blissfully fragrant smell forever. But I didn’t know what plant produced that special scent until some words from a popular Seals & Croft tune made me look it up. “Summer breeze, makes me feel fine / Blowing through the jasmine in my mind.” Those of…

  • Planting Trees & Shrubs? Here Are 3 Things You MUST Do First

    Planting Trees & Shrubs? Here Are 3 Things You MUST Do First

    I love planting trees and shrubs in my yard. I especially love foundation plantings – they help soften hard lines between a home and the surrounding landscape and give any house an inviting look. Homes without foundation plantings or at least one anchor tree in the yard just look incomplete to me. But you can’t…