Super cool plants you need to know about — a series where I share compact, low maintenance shrubs for the home gardener that can easily be incorporated into your landscape. Today I wanted to talk about a plant that is one of my favorite compact native hydrangeas, requires no pruning, and is gorgeous all year long — Ruby Slippers Oak-leaf Hydrangea. This hydrangea starts budding up in mid-spring (earlier than mophead hydrangeas) and opens up with its massive white conical blooms that pollinators

Super cool plants you need to know about — a series where I share compact, low maintenance shrubs for the home gardener that can easily be incorporated into your landscape. Today I wanted to talk about a plant that’s is one of my favorite compact roses that and is gorgeous all season long and resistant to black spot— Apricot Drift Rose from @starrosesandplants. This shrub looks incredible from mid spring to last frost— not sure how it blooms for so long… but it just keeps going and going. Plant

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