Super cool plants you need to know about — a series where I share compact, low maintenance shrubs for the home gardener that can easily be incorporated into your landscape.Today I wanted to talk about a compact shrub that is as delicious as it is gorgeous—Bountiful Blue Blueberry from @monroviaplants . This shrub looks incredible from early spring when it first begins to flowering— through summer, when it’s producing delicious fruit, and even in the fall. Plant Bountiful Blueberry with soil acid

My 3-year-old strawberry bush (Euonymus americanus) flowered and produced these beautiful fruits for the first time this year! Also known as hearts-a-burstin’, this unique native shrub is ant- and fly-pollinated and produces eye-catching fruits in the fall. It is apparently a favorite plant for deer, so you’ll have to fence it in if you have deer issues. In my area, it’s pretty tough to find the plant in the wild because it will often be browsed to death or out-competed by invasives. It supports

This jumping bush baby is extremely adorable