The final part of our best-new-plants-of-2025 series concludes with a look at some of the top new trees and shrubs debuting this season.

The bigleaf varieties include hydrangeas with pink or blue flowers ... which might be somewhat small at this point. Leaving the flower heads intact will help you avoid accidentally snipping ...

Hydrangeas are popular garden plants, and now that winter is ending, gardening experts recommend pruning them to get the most ...

They explain: "When it comes to pruning, the two main varieties of hydrangea are those that produce blooms on the previous year's growth (old wood) and those that produce flowers on new growth.

The Shimane Agricultural Technology Center committed itself to developing new varieties of hydrangeas from 2005 after it learned that not much effort had been made to devise new varieties through ...