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Hummingbirds are voracious eaters who can easily visit thousands of flowers each day, so attracting more hummingbirds to your garden is all about growing the right plants that bloom at the right times ...

It was my nose that led me to clethra, a plant I was unfamiliar with until it bloomed in my garden (established by the former owner). Wondering at the source of an extraordinarily sweet perfume, I ...

Who says colorful annual and perennial plants get to have all the fun in late summer? Flowering shrubs such as bluebeard, summersweet clethra and Thunberg’s bush-clover may come late to the party, but ...

* Botanical name: Clethra alnifolia 'Compacta' * What it is: Also known as 'Tom's Compact' summersweet, this plant is a compact variety of a Pennsylvania native flowering shrub. It produces upright, ...

• Sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird') is a popular variety of the eastern North American native species. The slow-growing, compact deciduous shrub bears many 3- to 6-inch spires of ...

Summer time and gardens are fragrant. The swamp magnolia are sweet but the linden is the most fragrant of all. Our citrus plants are so full of blooms you can smell them at a distance, nicotiana is ...