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Hebe Available with beautiful variegated leaves or in vibrant shades of pink and purple, hebes are perfect if you want ...
When it comes to pruning, timing is everything. Knowing when to cut back evergreen shrubs will encourage healthy growth instead of damaging your plants. There are plenty of low-growing evergreen ...
Emailer Louise has a dense evergreen hedge that she and her husband keep neatly trimmed. However, there is now a gap at its base in which various weeds and grasses have established themselves ...
Hebe ochracea 'James Stirling' won the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1993. This dwarf form of H. ochracea is named after the superintendent of the Government ...
With summer on its way now is the perfect time to get your garden looking fabulous with these trees, hedges and shrubs By Vita Molyneux , Travel Reporter 04:05, Sun, Mar 23, 2025 ...
Plant Pick: Hebe odora 'New Zealand Gold' June 22, 2007. Hebe odora 'New Zealand Gold' / It's as if gardeners staged a protest, with signs that read: "We want more hebes, and we want them now." ...
A Case of the Hebe Jeebies : Talking Plants Blog No sooner did they hit the PLAY button on my Hebe piece that aired on Morning Edition today, that it hit me, Uh oh! I'm a sitting duck for.
Hebe “Emerald Gem” caught the eye of Great Plant Pick judges over the course of a three-year hebe evaluation at North Willamette Research and Extension Center, Oregon. It stood out because of ...
But hebes are also naturally short-lived plants with an average maximum lifespan of a decade, so another possibility is that your hebe is naturally at the end of its life. Yet another is that it ...
Plant of the week: Hebe “Autumn Glory” WE think of hebes as summer shrubs but there are several that will flower quite late into autumn, including “Midsummer Beauty” with its long sprays ...
Over the 40-plus years of writing this garden column, I have learned what plants cause Western Washington gardeners the most problems and which seem to thrive. Here are our gardening columnist’s ...