If you're going to invest the money, time and valuable garden space in shrubs, you may as well make sure you've got something ...

In the summer of 1973 sunflowers appeared ... That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 ...

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Avoid nitrogen-heavy fertilizers, as they can make your shrubs produce fewer blooms. Home gardeners of all experience ... should be pruned after they flower in the late summer.