A simple 12-month garden can consist of winter honeysuckle, flowering Japanese apricot, mahonia, flowering quince, pussy willow, tulip poplar, butterfly bush, glossy abelia, vitex, aster and camellia and herbs, especially in the mint family, according to bee experts.

It surprised me to hear she is replacing a large stand of white rockrose with Kaleidoscope abelia. It seems her deer loved the rockrose and "ate it to the ground." Go figure about rockroses. Along her road, there were many of the dark pink variety ...

Shortly after 10:30 a.m., firefighters from Station 132 and deputies of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station responded to reports of the gas line breach in front of a home on Abelia Road on the south side of Tick Canyon in Canyon Country.

Burge Place will become Waratah Close, Abelia Court will be renamed Elkhorn Place and Brennan Road will be closed. Spears Park, on the corner of Spears Drive and Bunglegumbie Road, will be renamed Rosewood Park.

We also usually have a wide variety of flowering shrubs, such as abelia, serissa and spirea. One of recent additions to the plant sale is the Mother’s Day gift area. Creative Master Gardeners will be creating unique Mother’s Day gifts of floral ...

Prune summer-blooming shrubs, such as abelia and butterfly bush, in early spring. Buds form on the new wood that emerges the same year. Later, cutting spent flowers on your butterfly bush will produce new flowers.

Be on the lookout for fresh tomatoes soon. Summer flowering trees and shrubs such as crape myrtle, vitex, althea, oleander and abelia should not be pruned now. They should have been pruned in late February or early March. Most spring vegetables ...

The stumps were 6 inches in diameter. They were followed with ‘Rose Creek’ abelias (Abelia grandiflora), and I believe the third time was the charm. The abelias are evergreen and bear (for months, not 2 weeks) little funnel-shaped white ...