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This flowering shrub with glossy green leaves boasts blooms in white, peach, pink, or shades of purple in late spring. It's an old favorite with many new varieties available.

USDA Hardiness Zones: 4 to 8

Exposure: Part to full sun

Rhododendron makes for beautiful hedges and thrives under a canopy of trees. New varieties are more cold hardy.

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Best Flowering Shrub for Hummingbirds: Weigela

This deciduous shrub comes in a wide range of foliage and flower colors. Plant weigela as a showy hedge, or use as an accent or in mixed borders. New types rebloom throughout the growing season.

USDA Hardiness Zones: 4 to 8

Exposure: Full sun

The beautiful tubular blooms attract hummingbirds and butterflies from late spring to summer.

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Best Flowering Shrub with Berries: Beautyberry

Although this deciduous shrub produces pretty flowers from late spring into summer, it's better known for its stunning clusters of purple berries that persist into winter. Group several plants for a colorful border, or plant as a focal point.

USDA Hardiness Zones: 5 to 8

Exposure: Full sun

It's simply striking! It's also deer resistant and attractive to pollinators.

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Best Flowering Shrub for Butterflies: Butterfly Bush

This deciduous shrub features masses of blossoms from summer to fall. It comes in an array of colors including pink, purple, red, and white. Use it to add color, texture, fragrance, and height at the back of beds or near patios and other outdoor living areas. New varieties are more compact, reaching just 2–3 feet tall and wide.

USDA Hardiness Zones: 5 to 9

Exposure: Full sun

This fast grower is in bloom from summer to first frost. As the name indicates, butterflies love it!

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Toughest Flowering Shrub: Potentilla

Also known as cinquefoil, this hardy pink, white, or yellow flowering shrub features a long bloom time with some varieties flowering in late spring through early fall. It makes a beautiful addition to everything from small container gardens to mixed borders.

USDA Hardiness Zones: 2 to 7

Exposure: Full sun

Potentilla is a super-tough plant, standing up to both urban and coastal environments. It's also deer and rabbit resistant.

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Longest-Blooming Flowering Shrub: Hydrangea

Hydrangeas works as a hedge, as an accent, or even in containers. They boasts three-season interest because the flowers, which emerge in early to midsummer, stay intact through fall and winter. Many new varieties have been introduced in the last decade, so shop for one sized to your garden (some max out at just 2–3 feet tall and wide).

USDA Hardiness Zones: 3 to 9

Exposure: Part to full sun, depending on the variety

No matter where you live, there's a hydrangea that will thrive in your environment. The papery blooms persist throughout the season and make excellent dried flowers.

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Best Late-Blooming Flowering Shrub: Rose of Sharon

Rose of Sharon boasts large, lush flowers in every color from white to pale pink to deep chiffon blue in late summer. Plant as a hedge, either on its own or as a backdrop for lower shrubs or flowers.

USDA Hardiness Zones: 5 to 9

Exposure: Full sun

Just when the rest of your garden is fading in late summer, rose of Sharon begins to bloom.

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Easiest Flowering Shrub: Shrub Rose

Shrub roses are hardy, disease resistant, and bloom from late spring to a hard freeze for long season color. Some also are fragrant. Plant shrub roses as screens, as hedges, or en masse on a hillside.

USDA Hardiness Zones: 4 to 9

Exposure: Full sun

Why we love it: Easy-to-grow Flowering Shrub

Every garden needs at least one rose bush, and shrub roses are the least fussy type of rose to plant.

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High-quality Flowering Shrubs add structure and balance to your landscape, and you’ll find the highest quality right here at Nature Hills Nursery. Flowering bushes create a harmonious background, so you can get the peace and tranquility you crave this season.

Buy Flowering Shrubs from us help create a beautiful garden design and dramatic presentation. We offer a large online catalog of different types of flowering bushes, which you can quickly filter to pinpoint the type that’s right for you. Filter your search results by USDA growing zones, mature height and spread, and exposure to full sun or part shade.

Enrich your garden’s presentation the easy way. Be sure to include Flowering Shrubs to draw your eyes to tall vertical lines, radiating branches, and splashy colors that add so much panache.

Appreciate the stunning effects of your investments in your dream garden. We select modern flowering shrubs for longevity, landscape performance and superior resistance to insects and diseases.

Choose the best small flowering bushes to create your colorful haven. Nature Hills Nursery makes it easy to buy the large flowering shrubs you are looking for, too.

Types of Flowering Bushes that Work Best for Year-Long Blooms

Your ideal garden can always have a new flower (or two.) to show off to garden visitors. A little planning makes a big difference.

Choose flowering shrubs that have overlapping bloom seasons. Ideally, you would choose from shrubs that flower ranging from early spring to late fall.

Early Blooming Flowering Shrubs from Nature Hills Nursery

• Vivid Forsythia will make everyone smile.
• Plant low-growing Flowering Quince in a high-profile spot where the neighborhood can enjoy them.

Fragrant Flowering Shrubs Add So Much Value

• As the growing season progresses, Northern gardeners get to enjoy the large flower trusses of fragrant Lilacs, including the popular Common Purple Lilac.
• Don't forget the citrusy scent and crisp white blooms of Mock Orange.
• Southern gardeners can be proud of the fragrant flowers of Osmanthus evergreen shrubs, a year-round value.
• Layer honey-scented native Fothergilla to decorate your landscape.
• You can't miss the electric hues of Azaleas and Rhododendrons from Nature Hills Nursery.

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Early Summer Blooming Shrubs from Nature Hills Nursery

• Native Ninebark shrubs start their exquisite white and pink flowering display, followed by showy fall fruit.
• The large flower umbels of Red-Twigged Dogwood shrubs fill your yard with butterflies. You'll adore these cold-hardy shrubs in winter, too.
• Even tiny yards can include Little Henry Virginia Sweetspire, which grows in sun or shade.
• Mid- to late-season Crape Myrtles, produce blooms over a long period of time. Consider them your flowering wallpaper for outdoor pool parties and get-togethers.
• Late fall brings the season of shade-tolerant Witch Hazel.
• Use showy Yuletide Camellia for winter blooms.

Flowering Bushes Support Local Wildlife

Weigela are a flowering shrub that comes in many varieties, with colors along the rosy spectrum, from white to pink to deep red.  They produce trumpet-shaped blooms that entice hummingbirds, moths and butterflies as a clarion call.

Don't forget the nectar-rich Bluebeard shrubs. Layer these stunning blue bloomers in your home garden paradise.

Extended-blooming Flowering Shrubs like Potentilla make a beneficial impact for essential pollinators. These rugged plants bloom most of the season, but require little care.

We look for native shrubs like Buttonbush to support local ecology. You'll adore the charm of this incredible fragrant shrub.

No wildlife gardener should go another season without the flower clusters and lovely green foliage of easy to grow Viburnum. Flowers become yellow, red, blue, or black berries that are very attractive to birds in fall.

California Lilac and fast-growing Elderberry bushes are very popular wildlife plants. So is fragrant Aphrodite Sweetshrub. Whether you’re looking for flowering shrubs for full sun or part shade, you’ll find a glorious array at Nature Hills Nursery.

Hydrangea are the Flowering Bushes of Summertime

Long a staple of the best-made Southern gardens, Hydrangeas are now available in hardier varieties. Grow them across the country for a plethora of blooms from late spring to early fall.

Today’s Hydrangeas range from Alice Oakleaf Hydrangea for a naturalized shade setting. Vibrant tones of Grateful Red Hydrangea splash color into your perennial beds.

Giant Phantom Hydrangea create stunning backgrounds for smaller Flowering shrubs. These full-scale plants become a valuable asset in your garden design.

Tuff Stuff Mountain Hydrangea brings a lovely flower form to small space gardens. It blooms on both old and new wood. You won't believe the sheer amount of blooms.

Spirea Flowering Shrubs Remain a Garden Favorite

Stunning in any garden, Spirea creates a romantic ambience in your garden setting. This flowering shrub blooms from late spring to mid-summer in cascades.

Especially popular is the beautiful Renaissance Bridal Veil Spirea that displays graceful white flower clusters along its arched branches. Use several of them to create a bower of blooms in a long hedge or mass planting.

Our flowering shrubs nursery also sells the smaller Spirea that add a lovely layer of color and charming flowers and foliage. Start a collection, or stick with your favorites.

Rose of Sharon Flowering Bushes Are Some of the Hardiest

Among the hardiest Flowering Shrubs, dependable Rose of Sharon Althea is a tall, straight-standing plant that produces cupped flowers. Althea is a desirable selection that starts blooming later than other shrubs, definitely filling a hole in the flowering schedule.

Astounding splashes of lavish white, pink, lavender, deep purple, or rose colors can be added to your garden mix with these tall flowering shrubs. Well-loved and rugged, they are pollution resistant and can be grown in urban settings.

Create natural borders with Roses of Sharon shrubs along property lines. They can also be used as flowering garden walls to create outdoor rooms.

Selection, Planting and Care Tips for Flowering Shrubs

Study your property to see how much sun exposure you get. 

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Order your flowering shrubs any time of year. We'll ship them direct to your doorstep when the time is right for planting.

Track the boxes via email. Open them up and give them plenty of water.

Dig your hole twice as wide as their root system. Keep the depth at the same level they were growing in the pot.

For important landscape shrubs, use Nature Hills Root Booster in your planting hole. This time-tested formula supports the tiny feeder roots over the entire life of your plant.

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Mulch over the root system to a depth of 3 inches. Then, pull back the mulch away from touching the main stems.

Prune according to the Plant Highlights on each product page. 

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Fertilize your pretty flowering bushes with a slow-release formula in spring. Please keep lawn fertilizers well away from your flowering shrubs and other blooming plants.

Like our professional garden designer clients, you'll want to move quickly when you see your favorite flowering shrubs in stock on our website. We sell out of our limited inventories every year. Review the vast selection of flowering shrubs for sale at Nature Hills Nursery, then place your order today.

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The best ornamental shrubs for the garden: photos and names

For the improvement of land, gardens, parks, squares, not only flowers, but also various ornamental shrubs are used. It is enough to plant winter-hardy perennial flowering shrubs once, so that for many years the planting will please the eye with beautiful flowers and pleasant green foliage.

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• Hydrangea
• Weigela
• Colquis
• Potentilla
• Lilac dwarf Persian
• Keria Japanese
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• Caanotus (Red -Korene)
• Azalia Japanese
• Andromeda
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• Callicarpa
• Cotoneaster
• Holly
• Holly mahonia
• Fieldfare
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• Barberry
• Pieris japonica
• Pyracantha

Hydrangea

Hydrangea is a perennial flowering shrub, very popular due to the variety of shape and color of large flowers, and elegant curly foliage. The color palette is quite extensive: white, pink, red, blue, green. The plant blooms very profusely, flowers cover almost the entire bush. Spherical or paniculate inflorescences are able to change their color over a fairly long flowering period, which falls on the period from July to September. The hydrangea looks very impressive both as a separate bush and in a massive planting.

Hydrangea is winter-hardy (some varieties can tolerate frosts down to -40 °C) and can be grown even in Siberia, but young plants should be covered. A sunny or semi-shady area with moist, fertile soil with high acidity is ideal for placing hydrangeas. The plant needs regular feeding and spring pruning. White hydrangea flowers can be turned into multi-colored ones by adding various special chemicals designed to color hydrangea flowers to water for irrigation.

Hydrangea variety on the photo: Vanilla Fraze.

Weigela

Shrub grows to a height of 1.5 meters, is a wonderful decoration of lawns, suitable for decorating arbors, houses or fences. The drooping shoots of some species give the plant an openwork and airy appearance. For good growth, the shrub needs a sunny site with neutral or limestone breathable soil. The plant tolerates severe frosts well, but the bush should be planted in the spring, for a good rooting of the planting. In the first years of life, the plant is recommended to be covered in winter. There are 15 varieties of weigela with fragrant colors from white to red and green or variegated leaves. The first flowering of the plant occurs in May-June, the second is possible at the end of summer.

Sunny Princess blooming on the photo of weigela.

Kolkvitia

Perennial shrub, up to two meters high and wide, so with proper care the plant can form a ball. For colquitsia, you need to take a slightly shaded area, protected from cold winds. The soil should be fertile, neutral or slightly alkaline. Young shoots first grow upwards, then begin to arch and bend towards the ground. Flowering reaches a maximum by 7-8 years of age of the bush, when the leaves are almost invisible due to the number of fragrant flowers and buds. The plant is frost-resistant and requires only mulching of the root system, full shelter of the shrub is necessary only in frosty snowless winters.

The picture shows the lovely Rosea.

Potentilla

Ornamental perennial slow growing plant with showy flowers and filigree carved foliage. During flowering, it forms bright curtains. Potentilla serves as an excellent addition to compositions of decorative leafy and flower crops; it blooms for a long time all summer. There are varieties with yellow, white, pink or red flowers. Almost all cinquefoils are undemanding to growing conditions. The soil should be slightly acidic and nutritious, with good permeability, and the planting site should be in partial shade, without stagnant moisture. Potentilla belongs to moderately frost-resistant plants, if winter temperatures drop below -28 ° C and there is little snow, then it needs shelter. The plant will not tolerate a dry summer, regular watering and periodic spraying of foliage will be required.

Lovely Pink or Pink Beauty pictured.

Dwarf Persian lilac

Dwarf Persian lilac is an ornamental perennial shrub with a height of not more than 1. 5 m. This variety of lilac blooms in late May or early June, the duration of flowering is about 3-4 weeks, in the absence of severe drought, a second flowering of lilacs can be expected at the end of summer. The flowers of a plant with a strong aroma and color from dark purple to light lilac and white. The plant begins to bloom in the fifth year after planting. The best place for lilacs will be a sunny area without stagnant moisture with loose fertile soil. Simple plant care consists in removing faded inflorescences, shaping pruning and periodic top dressing.

Japanese keriya

Winter-hardy perennial shrub. Keria blooms every year in spring or summer with yellow fragrant flowers resembling buttercups in shape. There is a variety with double flowers. Often in autumn, the bush blooms again. The plant needs to be planted in a shaded area, it needs moist soil with the presence of humus and nutrients. Watering is required only when the topsoil dries up and during flowering. It is necessary to systematically weed and loosen the surface of the near-stem circle, as well as systematically feed the plant. Keria tolerates winter frosts well and, in case of damage from low temperatures, is fully restored in the spring.

Fortune's Euonymus

Euonymus is a picturesque perennial plant. It is unpretentious, perfectly tolerates a haircut, decorative throughout the season, and by autumn its attractiveness only increases. The forms of decorative euonymus are very diverse - from undersized shrubs to trees, shoots can have a round or tetrahedral section with various growths in the form of warts, ridges or additional ribs. The leaves may be green or brightly variegated; in autumn, the foliage turns yellow, scarlet, purple, or burgundy. Euonymus fruits are so bizarre, spectacular and brightly colored that they can easily be confused with flowers. For euonymus, you need to choose a sunny or semi-shady area with loose fertile soil with a neutral or slightly alkaline reaction without stagnant moisture. Euonymus has a high winter hardiness; only young plants may need shelter for the winter.

Pictured is Fortune Blondy's euonymus.

Redroot

An elegant garden shrub, perennial for growing in well-lit areas of the garden. The plant blooms in clusters of fragrant small white-pink, blue or lilac flowers from July to September, but only if planted in a warm sunny place. Long flowering allows the plant to be used for solitary plantings. For ceanothus, you need to choose a sunny area, protected from winds and stagnant moisture. The soil should be loose and fertile with neutral acidity. Watering is necessary 2-3 times a week, once a month the ceanotus should be watered with acidified water. The plant tolerates frosts down to -23 ° C, but it is recommended to mulch the root system for the winter.

Pictured is ceanotus Marie Simon.

Japanese Azalea

Low dense bushes of Japanese azalea (up to 50 cm) during flowering resemble picturesque colorful balls. Different varieties of Japanese azalea begin to bloom from April to July, depending on the variety. Flowering continues for 1.5-2 months. Bright funnel-shaped flowers densely cover the shoots with leathery foliage of a dark green hue. A charming plant used to decorate shady places in the garden - the azalea grows well and blooms in the shade. To plant this plant, you need to choose a non-sunny, shaded place, the soil should be peaty, acidic, well-drained. After planting, the topsoil should be mulched with needles or crushed pine bark. Plant nutrition has its own characteristics - ash and compounds containing chlorine and lime are not recommended for fertilizer. The plant is winter hardy, able to withstand temperatures down to -27 °C.

The photo shows the Japanese azalea "Marushka".

Andromeda (podbel)

Andromeda is an evergreen undersized dense shrub, not more than 50 cm in height. It has narrow bluish-green leaves with inward-curved edges that turn dark green in winter. The plant blooms with small white or pink flowers-balls collected in brushes from April to June. Re-flowering is possible in autumn. For planting andromeda, you need to choose a sunny or semi-shady area, the plant develops well in wetlands with acidic soil. If the soil at the planting site is neutral or slightly alkaline, it is necessary to add peat, coniferous needles to it and carry out artificial acidification. To prevent the soil from drying out in summer, it is required to mulch the soil. The frost resistance of the plant is very high, the bushes can withstand temperatures as low as -45 ° C.

Andromeda Blue Ice pictured.

Action

A perennial plant that has a huge number of forms and varieties that differ in bush size and size, color and shape of flowers. The bush can be upright or sprawling, from 0.4 to 4 m high. The action blooms in June-July for 15-35 days with many small, odorless flowers collected in umbellate or racemose inflorescences. Flowers can be simple or double, white, pink, lilac. It is recommended to plant action in the spring, the site should be selected with shading in the afternoon from the hot sun and protected from cold winds. The soil needs loose, nutritious, well-drained, with a slightly alkaline reaction. The trunk circle after planting should be mulched with a five-centimeter layer of peat. Watering is necessary only in hot weather without rain. In autumn, the color of the leaves changes from dark green to burgundy. For winter, the action is covered during a snowy or frosty winter.

The photo shows Strawberry Fields hybrid action.

Ornamental viburnum

Ornamental viburnum attracts with magnificent flowering, unpretentious care, elegant appearance. There are many types and forms of this ornamental shrub, with flowers of various shapes, different heights and shapes of the bush, fruit-bearing and barren, with red or blue-black berries. Viburnum blooms in spring or early summer with fragrant flowers of white or slightly pink color. Depending on the variety, flowering lasts from 20 days to two months.

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The plant is highly resistant to severe frosts, tolerates temperatures as low as -34 °C, and can grow well in the Urals and Siberia. Viburnum copes well with the lack of sunlight or moisture. For planting viburnum, choose a lighted or semi-shady place with moist soil. In hot dry weather, the plant needs abundant watering.

The photo shows a decorative viburnum Roseum.

Dwarf birch (dwarf birch)

Dwarf birch is an original miniature plant with a height of 0.5 to 1.0 m, is a highly branched shrub, the bush can reach 2-2.5 m in width. Dwarf birch is used for rock garden , terraces, creating hedges. The leaves of the tree are similar to the leaves of a real birch, but their color is lighter, when blooming - reddish-pink, then - from light green to yellow-green. Flowers are chestnut-colored earrings. In autumn, dwarf birch turns red and orange. A tree grows 10 cm a year, tolerates shearing well, it can be grown in wet and swampy areas, but in such conditions birch grows more slowly than in areas with moderately moist, fertile soil. In hot and dry weather, young plants need watering, adults can withstand a short drought. The winter hardiness of the plant is very high.

Pictured is a Golden Treasure dwarf birch.

Forsythia

Shrub with bright yellow flowers in early spring, there is a variety with pink flowers. Moreover, the leaves on the shrub bloom only after the end of flowering, which will last about 20 days. This light-loving plant with high decorative properties is very unpretentious and requires a minimum of care. It is desirable to choose a sunny place for good growth of forsythia, but it can also grow in shading. The quality of the soil does not really matter, but the plant feels better in loose, air- and water-permeable soil with an alkaline reaction. If it rains in summer, the plant does not require additional watering. Forsythia needs to be fed three times per season. Forsythia should be covered for the winter, the root system is mulched with a thick layer of fallen leaves, young plants are completely covered.

Forsythia Goldzauber is pictured.

Snowberry

One of the most interesting garden shrubs. The height of the plant varies from 0.2 to 3 m. Spectacular, catchy - it does not lose its decorative effect all year round. During flowering, the plant is strewn with small crimson and pink flowers in racemose inflorescences. But its main feature is berries! Pink or white pearls of berries hide flexible drooping shoots underneath. Berry clusters remain on the branches of the bush until spring and decorate the winter landscape. The berries are inedible. For planting a snowberry, it is advisable to choose a drained area with fertile soil, then the shrub will bear fruit more abundantly and look brighter, although it adapts to any growing conditions and will grow well in areas with ordinary soil, sunny or shaded. An unpretentious plant practically does not need care. Even during dry periods, it does not require watering. The snowberry is easy to cut - the crown quickly takes the desired shape.

Pictured is the Dorenboz Mather of Pearl snowberry.

Callicarp

Beautiful deciduous shrub from 1.5 to 3 m high. In spring and summer the foliage is green, in autumn it turns into rich yellow-orange tones. The plant blooms in August with delicate white-pink flowers, fruits are formed in September-October. Birds are not interested in them, thanks to which bright purple berries decorate the plant and the surrounding landscape all winter. The berries of most varieties are not poisonous, but also tasteless. It is worth considering that there are varieties with poisonous berries. To plant a beautiful fruit, you need to choose a place in the sun with well-drained neutral or slightly acidic soil. Some species are frost-resistant, but it is better to cover at least the root system for the winter.

The photograph shows the Bodinière Geraldi.

Cotoneaster

The original deciduous or evergreen may be a creeping shrub or small tree, depending on the species. It can be planted in groups, used in single plantings and borders. Cotoneaster has a positive attitude towards pruning, in this way various green figures can be created from a shrub. Deciduous forms in autumn change the color of foliage from green to various shades of red. The plant blooms in spring, with small white or pink flowers, the fruits are small, inedible, red or black.

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Shrub grows extremely slowly, in one place it can grow up to 50 years. Almost all varieties are highly winter hardy, do not require shelter, one has only to mulch the root system for the winter. The plant is very unpretentious, with high winter hardiness. For it, you can choose a place in the sun and in the shade, the shrub does not impose any special requirements on the composition of the soil, the main thing is that there is no stagnant water. Watering the plant will be required only in the absence of rain throughout the summer period.

The photo shows Cotoneaster hybrid Coral Beauty.

Holly (holly)

Spectacular shrub with serrated spiny leaves. They can be green, or bordered with a creamy wide edging. The plant is ideal for creating impenetrable hedges. In spring or early summer, the holly blossoms and sets berries, which, depending on the variety, turn yellow, orange, white, red and even black when ripe. The shrub does not drop berries, but some species and leaves in winter, so the decorative effect remains for a long time. To plant a plant, you should choose a shady place, protected from drafts. The soil needs well-drained, moist, rich in humus. For the winter, young plants should be covered.

Pictured is Altaklerensis Golden King holly.

Holly mahonia

Excellent ornamental evergreen up to 1.5 m tall. Mahonia flowers are fragrant, yellow, bloom in April-May, may re-bloom in autumn. Magonia bears what is known as an Oregon grape and can be eaten fresh and made into a fine homemade wine. Not demanding on the conditions of maintenance and composition of the soil, but the presence of humic substances has a positive effect on the appearance of the plant. It tolerates low temperatures well and retains the color of the leaves until the beginning of spring, young plants need shelter. For planting, preferably a sunny place or partial shade.

On the photo is medium "Charity" mahonia.

Fieldfare

Wonderful ornamental plant for decorating the garden landscape. Perennial fast-growing deciduous rounded shrub with unusually beautiful leaves, which, depending on the variety, can be either dense or pale green, with a bronze coating along the edges. Young leaves are orange-pink. Panicle-shaped inflorescences consist of many small fragrant flowers of white or cream color, bloom in early summer. The name of the plant indicates the similarity of fieldfare leaves with real mountain ash. A place for planting should be chosen in partial shade, the soil should be fertile, moist, but without stagnant water. Frost resistance and resistance to diseases of the plant is high, it tolerates dry periods well.

Fieldfare "Sam" is shown in the photo.

Barberry

Spectacular decorative leaf and berry shrub with small leaves and thorny stems. There are varieties with creeping or erect shoots, with leaves of green, purple or pink. Barberry bushes are planted as framing flowerbeds and rabatok, included in hedges, used as a tapeworm on the lawn.

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In spring, clusters of bright yellow or orange-red flowers appear on the plant, they contrast effectively with the foliage. In autumn, red-coral fruits ripen on thorny branches. Barberry is undemanding to soil and light intensity, although it develops better in a sunny area, is responsive to pruning, and is very frost-resistant.

The photo shows the thunberg barberry Red Carpet.

Pieris japonica

Spectacular, slow growing evergreen exotic shrub with oval leaves growing in tufts at the tops of shoots in brightly variable colors of pinks and reds. It blooms magnificently in early summer with clustered bell flowers of scarlet, pink or white, depending on the plant variety. To plant pieris, you need to choose a site in the sun or in partial shade, the soil is needed with an acidic reaction. Care requires regular watering, maintaining an acidic soil environment and top dressing once a month. The plant is winter-hardy, withstands temperatures down to -30 ° C, but the root system should be mulched for the winter. When working with the shrub, gloves should be used, as the plant is poisonous.

The photo shows Japanese pieris "Variegata".

Pyracantha

Unusual perennial thorny evergreen, foliage changes from green to crimson with the onset of cold weather. In spring, it blooms profusely with white fragrant flowers, by autumn it is covered with clusters of bright yellow or red-orange berries, similar to miniature apples, which are not poisonous, but not edible either. An ideal plant for a spectacular decoration of a personal plot. Medium-sized shrub looks charming all year round. The plant is unpretentious, resistant to diseases and pests, its frost resistance is average, shelter for the winter is required. For planting, you need to choose a semi-shady area, protected from cold winds. The soil is suitable for any, well-drained, without stagnant water.

Photograph of the Soleil Dor pyracant.

The best winter-hardy shrubs that bloom all summer.

To create comfort in the backyard of a private house, it is necessary not only to create beautiful flower beds, but also to plant ornamental shrubs. With their help, many problems are solved. From dividing the space of the garden into zones and filling the site with flowering plants to enclosing it with a green living fence.

The use of flowering shrubs is more interesting. Some of them have an amazing aroma and literally transform the garden. They can be used in mixed plantings, mixborders, along fences to create compositions that bloom all summer from different plants that replace each other in terms of flowering.

This list of flowering shrubs may include the following plants:

• Budley. It resembles a lilac, can grow up to three meters. Color shades: pink and lavender, purple and white, and white. These beautiful shrubs will decorate the garden all summer because they bloom until frost.

• Potentilla. Inconspicuous plant, blooms with numerous, but medium-sized flowers, foliage is not particularly beautiful. However, not a single shrub border or mixborder can do without Potentilla: while other shrubs fade in turn, it creates a bright spot in the garden. They have established themselves as shrubs that bloom all summer, winter-hardy, as they are not afraid of frost. Flowering begins in May and stops with the first frost. It is unpretentious to the soil, blooms well both in a sunny place and in light partial shade, care comes down to annual pruning. There are varieties of this continuously flowering shrub of different colors.

• Calicant will decorate the garden with original water lilies. This is a beautiful, hardy, but rare shrub from North America. The flowers are large with numerous petals. All parts of the garden plant are fragrant. Blooms in June - July. Requires pruning in the spring.

• • Shrub rose. Varies greatly in bush size and flower shape. They bloom all summer or are characterized by re-blooming.

• Kariopteris will add blue hues to the garden, as its brushes have just such a color. This is a flowering shrub with a rounded crown for the front of the border. They are planted in groups. It is undemanding to the soil. Quite winter-hardy. Flowering time September - October. Need pruning shrubs in March.

• Cistus resembles poppy or non-double rose flowers, sometimes with spots at the base of the petals. Flowers with paper-thin petals are short-lived. Each flower lives only one day, but since new buds are constantly appearing, the bush blooms all summer. The plant is warm and photophilous, forms a low rounded bush. Does not tolerate clay soil. Flowering time June - August. Pruning in spring.

• Alder leaf prefers moist soil. It gets along well along the edges of ravines and by the pond. This shrub requires almost no care. It quickly spreads throughout the territory provided to it. Its feature is that flowers appear only on young shoots. Therefore, it is recommended to cut it every year. It blooms in summer (July - August) with small fragrant flowers, collected at the ends of the shoots in long spike-shaped inflorescences. In autumn, the foliage of the shrub is brightly colored.

With regular and proper pruning, evergreen shrubs easily turn into a hedge or an unusual living sculpture that will become the center of a recreation area. To do this, it is enough to skillfully cut them. List of evergreen ornamental shrubs that can be planted in the garden:

• • Holly. Not afraid of frost. Grows over a meter. The oblong leaves are studded with thorns. Therefore, it is unpleasant to approach him closely.

• • Tis. Slow growing conifer, planted in hedges in mild climates. The usual color of the foliage is dark green, there are varieties with golden foliage, as well as various forms of growth - from ground cover to tall columnar trees. Better than many other conifers, it tolerates unfavorable growth conditions, but does not tolerate stagnant water at the roots during the cold season. The plant is dioecious, on females seeds are formed with a fleshy red roof up to 1 cm in diameter. Leaves and seeds are poisonous.

• • Boxwood A popular shrub for hedges, including low, bordering flower beds. It withstands frequent shearing and partial shade, is not afraid of the wind, and is undemanding to the soil. Keep in mind that boxwood is very easy to care for. He does not need annual pruning. Cut out only dry and thickening branches, and also shorten the elongated shoots.

• Calmia is a beautiful flowering shrub that pleases with its flowering in May - June. In a non-flowering state, Calmia is similar to a rhododendron, plants are easily distinguished by flowers. Kalmia has buds similar to Chinese lanterns, the edges of the petals are corrugated. Likes moist acidic soil and light partial shade.

Calmia

boxwood

Yew

They are often used to create a smooth transition from grass cover to canopy. Shade-loving shrubs are also needed to create a beautiful design for fences and the shady side of a private house. The most common shade-tolerant shrubs are listed below.

• Cotoneaster. One of the most important ornamental beautiful fruiting shrubs in the garden. The genus includes plants of different shapes and sizes, most of them evergreen or semi-evergreen. The leaves are oval, with a solid edge, pink buds in May or June open to white flowers. In autumn, beautiful fruits ripen, which are practically not pecked by birds. Some cotoneasters have beautiful fall foliage. Strongly overgrown bushes are pruned in the spring. Valued for the unusual dark green color of glossy leaves. They tend to change color to red when autumn comes.

Cotoneaster

• Rhododendrons are beautiful flowering shrubs that like to be sheltered from the midday sun. Traditionally, representatives of the genus are divided into rhododendrons and azaleas. Rhododendrons growing in the shade on average reach a height of 1. 5 meters, bloom in May, however, there are plants of both 30 cm and 6 m, blooming both in early spring and in autumn, in August. The color of the flowers is varied, with the exception of blue, the leaves are oval or oblong, wintering. All rhododendrons are characterized by shallow roots, so the soil under the plants is mulched, and watered abundantly in dry weather.

Rhododendrons

• Garden jasmine grows well in the sun and in the shade, but in the second case, its flowering will not be so intense. There are two groups of jasmine: bushy with weak stems, grown in wall plantings, and jasmine - creepers that are able to climb the wall, support themselves. Flowering time depends on the species. Grow in moderately fertile soil in partial shade.

Garden jasmine (shrub)

• Privet tolerates polluted air well, so it is most often grown in the hedges of private houses that overlook city streets. There are variegated varieties. It is characterized by the fact that it does not tolerate severe winter frosts, therefore it requires shelter. grows in any moderately fertile soil, in a sunny or shady place. propagated by lignified cuttings in open ground in late autumn. Of care, a haircut is required - hedges are cut in May and August.

Privet Oval Aureum

• Thunberg Barberry are those ornamental flowering perennial shrubs that are beautiful, low and hardy. They are widely used in garden decoration, as they are represented by a large range of varieties. Various types of barberry are very common and popular. Barberry Thunberg grows up to 1.5 meters. The leaves of the shrub turn red in autumn, the berries ripen red. This beautiful shrub blooms in April - May.

Thunberg barberry

Gardeners choose them when a hedge needs to be grown in a short time. Often such plantings are made combined from different types of shrubs. In this case, you should carefully consider the issue of the future size of an adult plant and its relationship to a haircut.

The most popular fast growing shrubs are:

• dogwood and barberry ;
• viburnum vesicle — unpretentious shrub with a rounded crown shape;
• Blackthorn does not need careful pruning, it is done only when denser vegetation is needed;
• honeysuckle sanitary pruning is required in the first seven years, and then it remains only to form a hedge of the desired shape;
• climbing rose , it is recommended to start shaping it in the second year of growth in a permanent place.

vesicle

climbing rose

Honeysuckle

The former are characterized by the fact that they do not grow above one meter. They are usually planted on the borders. They decorate flower beds. List of low-growing ornamental shrubs for the garden:

• • Japanese quince (low) throughout the warm season decorates the country house with orange or golden color, first with flowers, then with fruits;

• • already mentioned above Potentilla a;

• • common heather is also an evergreen shrub that blooms most of the summer;

• elegant action , its flowering shrubs are the center of attraction, but it is whimsical to excess moisture, severe frosts and cold winds.

Japonica

Heather

• blood red hawthorn - grown as a shrub, low tree or hedge, able to grow in almost any conditions, both on dry and waterlogged soil, in the sun and in the shade;

• • silver goof — grown not for fragrant, but nondescript flowers, but because of the beautiful foliage;

• red elderberry with beautiful foliage, on which red fruits form after the flowers.

Goof silver

Elder

Hawthorn

The word "mix" leads us to mixing. The second part of the word - border - sends to the borders. It turns out that in such a landing there are no boundaries. But this is not true. It just seems so. In fact, everything here must be carefully thought out and planned.

Plants in a mixborder are supposed to have dense groups that smoothly flow into one another. Moreover, it must contain elements that will remain visible in the cold season. They are shrubs and conifers. They are also called the skeleton of the composition.

Any mixborder must be divided into three parts. They will not be the same in size and shape. In the background are planted tall plants with interesting leaves. The second row is filled with flowers that are characterized by straight and tall stems.

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