Dwarf Pampas Grass Works in Even Small Gardens

Greenwood Nursery announces the addition of Dwarf Pampas Grass. This beautiful pampas matures at 5 to 6 feet tall with a spread of 3 to 4 feet wide, making it an excellent choice garden plant for small gardens. Pair your Dwarf Pampas Grass with Yucca plant varieties for an attractive desert plant or Mediterranean garden. Wind and drought tolerant. 

Add color and texture to your garden setting with our Dwarf Pampas Grass. Safe for planting near swimming pools. 

Plant Shrub Roses to Complete Your Spring Garden Planting

Shrub roses are plants that can turn any average garden into wonder of color all summer long. You will find yourself lost in this colorful world when you approach the entrance of your garden and walk underneath a flowering archway with rose bushes growing freely. In bloom, rose shrubs are enchanting and most have a fragrance that brings on tranquility. As you walk through you will see the different rose colors; yellows, like a gorgeous setting sun; pinks settled among the green foliage brightly lit with grandeur; more of the deep reds that bring solidarity to the mind. The scents among these roses are as different as the colors that emit them. This becomes a small paradise where you feel compelled to sit among these creatures of beauty.

This picture may read like a dream, but it is truly obtainable for your own home. And it is not difficult to gather the right rose plants to bring out that small bit of heaven to your landscape.

Your first step is to scope out a few select spots around your garden or lawn area where you can plant the roses. Then, choose the roses that best fit your landscape. For example, if you have a small yard, choose The Fairy Rose or Red or Apricot Drift Roses as they are small growing.


The most popular shrub roses are:

Red Drift Rose
The Fairy Rose
Apricot Drift Rose
Knockout Sunny Rose
Double Red Knockout Rose
Rugosa Rose red
Rosa White Out
Double Pink Knockout Rose
Hansen Hedge Rose


After choosing the right one, or ones, order your new flowering shrubs, plant and sit back as they take center stage for a beautiful transition into the garden itself. Aside from light pruning, your beautiful new roses will be something that you can enjoy and take pride in for years to come, as they turn your average garden into a masterpiece of color. The compliments that you receive will make you proud to call this garden your own.

Be sure to check out Greenwoodnursery.com to see our rose bushes selection.

Planting a Small Sized Garden

When you don’t have the budget or inclination to do the landscaping projects you really should do, downsize. Downsize with smaller landscapes and smaller plants. Small sized gardens can be used effectively to enhance bland foundations, corners, and entrances as well as add color, fragrance and interest to patios and other sitting areas.

Small gardens use small scale shrubs and perennials. Anchor shrubs should mature around 3 to 4 feet tall and are typically placed in the back 1/3 of the area. Planting one or two evergreen shrubs makes a good base. Colorful small shrubs and shrub-like perennials are other good choices.


Small garden anchor plants:

• Boxwood Winter Gem
• Boxwood Wintergreen
• Nandina Firepower
• Sungold Cypress
• Sunjoy Gold Pillar Barberry
• Sunny Abelia Anniversary
• Pink Micro Chip Butterfly Bush
• Tuff Stuff Dwarf Hydrangea
• OSO Easy Double Red Rose

Karley Rose, Prairie Dropseed, Karl Foerster and Adagio are some of the more striking ornamental grasses that are attractive as single specimens and can be used in lieu shrubs as anchor plants.


Plant perennial plants of varied heights keeping within 12 to 40 inches tall for added interest. Some of the friendliest and brightest varieties are:

• Lo & Behold Blue Chip Buddleia
• Lavender (Munstead, Hidcote & Kew Red)
• Pineapple Sage
• Walker’s Low Catmint
• Echinacea Day Dream (yellow) & Hot Lava (orangey red)
• Purple Dome Aster
• Heucheras Plum Pudding & Mystic Angel
• Gaillardias Arizona Sun & Burgundy
• Monardas Fireball & Blue Stocking
• Veronicas Red Fox & Sunny Border Blue
• Little Spire Russian Sage
• Hostas
• Ferns

Small scale ground cover plants are the last touch for small gardens.
Select from:

• Creeping rosemary
• Corsican Mint
• Elfin Thyme
• Red Creeping Thyme
• Blue Star Creeper (Laurentia)
• Big Blue Liriope

Use spreading plants that have a spreading habit to fill in over several years such as:

• Red Drift Rose and Apricot Drift Rose 
• Rudbeckia Autumn Colors
• Moonshine Yarrow
• Shasta Daisy Crazy Daisy
• Dianthus Firewitch

How to plan a small sized garden for your enjoyment:

• Select at least one small scale shrub to anchor the garden
• Choose 3 or more perennials in varied heights
• Use one variety of groundcover for the front most part
• For even more interest add a bird feeder or whirligig just off the center point