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 ...

East Hardwick’s Summersweet Garden Nursery used to be called Perennial Pleasures Nursery. Rachel Kane started it in 1980, when she was still a college student at the University of Vermont. She ...

* 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, ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - This shrub is so pretty, why doesn't everybody have one? Clethra alnifolia, also known as Summersweet, is blooming now and because Clethra likes moisture, they seem particularly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...