Tea, flowers and friends await you at Summersweet Garden Nursery in East Hardwick, formerly known as Perennial Pleasures Nursery. Rachel Kane started Perennial Pleasures in 1980 when she was still a ...

* 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, ...

is a hard-working, sweet-natured plant. Nicknamed summersweet, Clethra thrives on moisture. Overindulges if the truth be known. If nothing's nearby to check her growth, she can expand indefinitely, by ...

EAST HARDWICK, Vt. (WCAX) - Tea, flowers and friends await you at Summersweet Garden Nursery in East Hardwick, formerly known as Perennial Pleasures Nursery. Rachel Kane started the nursery in 1980 ...

The seasonal tea room offers full English cream teas. In a garden setting, guests can enjoy a pair of scones, served with freshly whipped cream and homemade strawberry jam, two cucumber-herb ...

The Garden Guy has known of the summersweet or Clethra alnifolia for over 20 years when the variety Hummingbird was selected as a Georgia Gold Medal Winner in 1996. If I may pose the question however, ...

I find it surprising that designers often seem reticent in considering aroma when they develop garden plans. The experts tell us that olfactory acuity in humans, albeit less refined than in most ...

Hummingbirds are voracious eaters who can easily visit thousands of flowers each day, so attracting more hummingbirds to your ...

Q: I have a sunny garden area that tends to stay damp. Are there shrubs I can add that attract pollinators, without having to improve the drainage? A: Indeed, you have several choices among both ...