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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

* 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, ...

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 ...

Every garden needs a summersweet (Clethra alnifolia) or two. This shrub blooms in the dog days of summer, with spicy-sweet flower clusters and glossy foliage. What’s more, almost any gardener would ...

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 ...

Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice' is a deciduous, summer-flowering shrub native to Eastern North America, where it grows in damp shade along streams. Its flowers are usually white, but the cultivar 'Ruby ...

Flowers are mere frills, fleeting spots and masses of color. Plant flowering shrubs, and you get both the backbone and the frills in one plant. Look around now: Many summer flowering shrubs are ...