Bushes That Like Shade

The Green Giant Thuja is a large and dense, pyramidal-shaped evergreen. The foliage is rich green in the summer and darkens or bronzes slightly in the winter. The Green Giant is fast-growing and reaches a height of 50 ft.

Tall with a spread of 10 to 20 ft. The foliage is a pleasant light green to bluish-green. A stately broad dense evergreen tree that becomes narrow upright to spire-like with age. Prefers full sun and moist, well-drained soil.

With enough room to grow, however, Live Oaks give one's yard a sense of establishment and history. Live Oaks are large, strong, and stately evergreens that have become a staple of the American South.

Foliage is bluish green. The mature height is 30 to 60 ft. Scotch pine is pyramidal in habit when young, becoming picturesque and open with age. Often used as a Christmas tree, grouping or windbreak.

Long and covered by a 1/3 in. With a canopy of 35 ft. A Nuttall Oak tree must be approximately 20 years old before producing acorns. The Nuttall oak is a strong and adaptable oak that provides summer shade and nice fall foliage.

Chastetree thrives particularly well in the heat. It is hardy in Zones 6-9 and can be planted in full sun or partial shade. The tree is fast-growing and reaches a height and width of about 12 ft.

No serious pests or disease problems. Excellent substitute for Leyland Cypress. Vigorous growing, tightly pyramidal, evergreen shrub with dense, rich green, scale-like foliage borne in flattened sprays on horizontal or ascending branches.

White Spruce trees are ideal for landscapers because of its uniform, pyramidal habit that grows 40 ft. It's evergreen, too, so it will keep its green needles throughout the wintertime.

Trees are pyramidal in for when young becoming pendulous pyramidal with age. USDA hardiness zone 3 to zone 7. The foliage (needles) is short, deep green with two white bands on the underside of each needle.

A handsome evergreen tree that makes a nice specimen, group planting or Christmas tree. Mature height is 40 to 80 ft. A graceful evergreen tree with an upright pyramidal habit. Grow in full sun on moist well drained soil.

* The plant was first used as a medicinal herb in ancient Greece. * It is boiled in olive oil to make black dyes and hair dressing. * The plant is native to damp grasslands, woodlands, meadows and rocky areas in temperate areas of Europe.

The trick is to know which ones are friends and which ones are foes. Chances are, they will be happiest in the compost heap. They can rest easy, since the grubs only feed on decaying hardwood and the adults prefer rotten fruit and decomposing plant matter.

* The plant was first used as a medicinal herb in ancient Greece. * It is boiled in olive oil to make black dyes and hair dressing. * The plant is native to damp grasslands, woodlands, meadows and rocky areas in temperate areas of Europe.

* The plant was first used as a medicinal herb in ancient Greece. * It is boiled in olive oil to make black dyes and hair dressing. * The plant is native to damp grasslands, woodlands, meadows and rocky areas in temperate areas of Europe.

The trick is to know which ones are friends and which ones are foes. Chances are, proper food sources are nearby and so she hangs out where she will lay her eggs. This is known as phototaxis.

Their diet should make them a welcome resident in any vegetable garden or perennial bed. They are the cheetahs of the insect world, deadly night-hunters that can run their prey to the ground in seconds.

It is easy and fast growing, and is muchly treasured in old gardens in the south. On a recent trip to west Texas we saw a Coral Vine that must have had 50 or more butterflies on one plant! Rose of Montana is considered invasive in some regions, please...

A vigorous but manageable unusual perennial tropical vine. Large deep green heart shaped foliage is veined with silver and randomly splotched with maroon and black.

Produces large clusters of loosely double 2" pink flowers from spring to fall.A very free-blooming, disease resistant, and nearly thornless climbing rose.

Very tolerant of cutting, ash was also at one time frequently coppiced for its wood. * Trees rarely exceed 250 years old. * It is a large deciduous tree growing to 20–35 m (exceptionally to 46 m) tall with a trunk up to 2 m (exceptionally to 3.5 m)...

Very tolerant of cutting, ash was also at one time frequently coppiced for its wood. * Trees rarely exceed 250 years old. * It is a large deciduous tree growing to 20–35 m (exceptionally to 46 m) tall with a trunk up to 2 m (exceptionally to 3.5 m)...

An easily grown and vigorous clinging native evergreen vine that can easily grow up masonry, tree bark, or other structures without support. You can grow Crossvines on large stumps or posts, sturdy trellises, along fences where they may stretch to 30'...

Excellent for growing on a low fence or on a trellis. See the external info link below for more from Dr. Jerry Parson's of T A&M. A vigorous climbing and disease resistant rose producing huge clusters of deep red 1" roses in late spring, summer, and fall.

Intense orange, 2" daisy-like blooms with yellow centers are borne on a vigorous twining vine. Blooming spring to fall. An easily grown perennial vine.

The Brazilian or Giant Dutchman's Pipevine is sure to stop traffic, please plant responsibly :). The Pipevines are used by the Pipevine Swallowtail and Polydamas Swallowtail butterflies as a caterpillar host plant.

An excellent ground cover for sun to shade. Evergreen and dense. Rosy pink new growth matures to white and deep rich green creating a snowfall of color in the garden. This is an excellent choice for difficult sites and is quite drought tolerant once well-established.

Salsa Jasmine or Ogon Nishiki Asiatic Jasmine creates a fiery splash of color anywhere in the garden or spilling from containers, over walls, or even from hanging baskets. Trachelospermum asiaticum is a.k.a. Asian Jasmine, Japanese Star Jasmine, Dwarf...