INTRODUCTION TO GROWING SHRUBS PLANTS Abelia Japanese laurel Barberry Brachyglottis 'Sunshine' PROJECT 1: REJUVENATING A BUTTERFLY BUSH Butterfly bush Common box Beauty berry Japanese camellia PROJECT 2: BUILDING A BUTTERFLY HOUSE Californian lilac 'Puget Blue' Japanese quince 'Pink Lady' Mexican orange blossom Cretan rock rose Looking-glass plant 'Pacific Dawn' Dogwood 'Midwinter Fire' PROJECT 3: CREATING A DECORATIVE EDGEWITH DOGWOOD STEMS Cobnut Smoke bush 'Royal Purple' Cotoneaster Winter daphne Beautiful deutzia Paperbush PROJECT 4: MAKING ORGANIC NETTLE-TEA FERTILIZER Oleaster 'Quicksilver' Escallonia 'Apple Blossom' Spindle 'Red Cascade' Evergreen bittersweet 'Emerald Gaiety' Spindle 'Bravo' Pearl bush 'The Bride PROJECT 5: CREATING A JUNGLE GARDEN Japanese aralia Forsythia Fuchsia 'Genii' New Zealand broadleaf Witch hazel 'Pallida' Curry plant Smooth hydrangea Big-leaf hydrangea PROJECT 6: DRYING HYDRANGEA BLOOMS FOR FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS Paniculate hydrangea Rose of Sharon Japanese holly Double-flowered Japanese rose PROJECT 7: DRIED LAVENDER FLOWER BAG English lavender Tea tree Garden privet Wilson's honeysuckle Loropetalum Star magnolia PROJECT 8: GROWING A SHRUB IN A CONTAINTER Oregon grape Tree mallow 'Rosea' Great honey flower Common myrtle Heavenly bamboo Burkwood osmanthus PROJECT 9: PLANTING A POT-GROWN SHRUB IN THE GROUND Mock orange 'Belle Étoile Christmas berry 'Red Robin' Pieris 'Forest Flame' Tawhiwhi Firethorn Saphyr Orange Rhododendron 'Cunningham's White' PROJECT 10: MAKING ROSEMARY AND LAVENDER SOAP Flowering currant Rosemary Russian sage 'Blue Spire' Elder PROJECT 11: HOME-MADE ELDERFLOWER CORDIAL Cotton lavender Sweet box Japanese skimmia Japanese spiraea Common lilac Rakai hebe PROJECT 12: PLANTING A HEDGE Laurustinus Weigela Troubleshooting What to do when Index Acknowledgments.