Mystery gardenia can grow to six to eight feet and makes a great hedge. It is noted for its large (four to five inch) blooms with a heady fragrance that can bloom sporadically until fall.

Seems fairly obvious, but a hedge is just a linear planting of plants meant to define an edge, provide a screen or create a ...

Question. Our camellia hedge is blooming nicely but is thin at the base. Should we cut it back when the blooming stops or wait until spring to do the pruning?

Of course, you can shear your hedge as well, but here’s one plea from one garden writer. If you are going to go to the trouble of making a nice, formal, tightly sheared hedge, please do us all a ...

Probably my favorite hedge in the whole world is a 300-foot-long hedge of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) found in a Roman garden. While it wouldn’t work here very well, the texture, color and ...

2. Using a garden hedge trimmer up a step ladder. Mistake number two isn't an outright no-no but it's how it is done that has the potential to be a major hedge trimmer mistake. Again, I'm ...

How to create a wildlife-boosting hedge – even in an urban garden Make your cityscape a magnet for wildlife by growing an eco-friendly hedge, says Hannah Stephenson.

There are three types of hedge trimmers: battery-powered, corded electric, and gas. Battery hedge trimmers dominate the market, so that’s where we focus the bulk of our testing.