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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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16 Best Flowering Shrubs - Beautiful Bushes with Flowers

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Flowering shrubs provide color and structure and can be used as groundcovers, hedge plants or eye-catching focal points. You can fill your garden with ornamental shrubs that bloom from early spring through late fall and even into winter. Many flowering shrubs also perfume the air with their own signature fragrance.

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Bloomerang® Dark Purple reblooming lilac. Photo: Proven Winners.

LILAC (

Zones: 3-8 for most, a few hardy to Zone 2
Exposure: Full sun; will tolerate some light shade
Mature size: 5 to 15 feet tall and wide, depending on variety
Bloom time: Late April to May; again in summer for rebloomers.
Flower colors: Purple, pink, white

Throw open your windows on a warm day in May, and you’re apt to be greeted by the intoxicating, unmistakable fragrance of spring-blooming lilacs. Early-, mid- and late-season cultivars extend the bloom time for at least 6 weeks. Reblooming varieties bloom once in spring and again in summer through fall.

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Zones: 5-9
Exposure: Partial to dappled shade
Mature size: 18 inches to 20 feet tall, depending on variety
Bloom time: Peak bloom usually occurs mid-spring; however, some bloom as early as March, others as late as July.
Flower colors: Shades of pink, white, purple, crimson, and yellow

Prized for its spectacular spring flowers, many varieties are evergreen and can be enjoyed year-round. Their size and shape vary, from low-growing groundcovers to tall shrubs.

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Zones: 3-9
Exposure: Full sun to partial shade; flowers best in full sun
Mature size: 1 to 20 feet tall, 3 to 10 feet wide, depending on variety
Bloom time: Early to mid-spring
Flower colors: Bright yellow

The vibrant canary-yellow flowers of forsythia are like the first ray of sunshine after the dark days of winter, covering each arching branch with a profusion of blooms lasting one to two weeks. The welcome explosion of yellow flowers makes this shrub well worth planting, despite the short bloom time.

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Zones: 4-8
Exposure: Partial to full sun
Mature size: 6 to 8 feet tall and wide
Bloom time: April
Flower colors: White, pink

This showy shrub produces clusters of pastel-pink buds in late March that open to domed clusters of white or pink-flushed flowers. However, it’s the heady fragrance, similar to spice cake, that makes this exceptional species a delightful addition to the garden.

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Zones: 4-8
Exposure: Full sun; will tolerate partial shade
Mature size: Varies; from 12 inches tall and 18 inches wide to 10 feet tall and 12 feet wide
Bloom time: Mid to late spring, with sparser rebloom in summer and fall
Flower colors: Shades of red, pink, white, and yellow

Gardeners love this popular shrub not only for its abundance of white or pink flowers on arching branches, but also for its unflappable nature and reliable performance. The trumpet-shaped flowers are a favorite of bees and hummingbirds, and often continue to bloom in scattered fashion from mid to late summer.

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Zones: 5-9
Exposure: Full sun
Mature size: 6 to 10 feet tall and wide; some compact cultivars to only 3 or 4 feet
Bloom time: Early to mid-spring
Flower colors: Shades of red, orange, coral, pink, and white

Flowering quince blooms earlier than other spring-flowering shrubs, appearing as early as late January in the South, and March in northern areas. Adaptable and easy to grow, quince is also tolerant of heat, dry conditions, and a wide range of soil types.

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Zones: 5-9
Exposure: Full sun
Mature size: 1 to 4 feet tall and wide
Bloom time: Early summer through fall
Flower colors: Shades of red, pink, white, yellow, and peach

Shrub roses are quickly becoming the go-to darlings of the rose world, taking the best traits of the hardiest rose species and combining them with attributes of repeat blooming and minimal maintenance.

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Zones: 3-9
Exposure: Partial to full sun
Mature size: 6 to 8 feet tall and wide
Bloom time: Late summer through fall
Flower colors: Blooms green, then fades to white, then pink

Hydrangeas are one of the few flowering shrubs that produce spectacular blooms even in partial shade. One hydrangea that has become the superstar of the late-summer garden is 'Limelight'. This fast-growing, upright shrub produces large cone-shaped panicles in late July that change color as they mature, from lime-green to white and finally to a rosy pink.

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Zones: 2-7
Exposure: Partial to full sun
Mature size: 2 to 3 feet tall and wide
Bloom time: June through September
Flower colors: Yellow, pink, orange, or white

Cinquefoil is also one of the easiest shrubs to grow, featuring good drought tolerance, excellent winter hardiness, and little need for aggressive pruning. Besides yellow, dozens of cultivars of cinquefoil are available in other hues, including white, pink, and tangerine.

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Zones: 4-8
Exposure: Full sun
Mature size: 2 to 3 feet tall and wide
Bloom time: June to August
Flower colors: Pink or purple

Summer-blooming Japanese spirea are a favorite of many gardeners because of their clusters of long-lasting summer flowers and good fall leaf color. Double Play® Candy Corn® is a popular, easy-care cultivar that produces showy dark purple bloom clusters surrounded by yellow and orange foliage.

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Zones: 5-9
Exposure: Full sun
Mature size: 2 to 10 feet tall and wide, depnding on variety
Bloom time: July to October
Flower colors: Shades of pink, purple, or white

Butterfly bushes have honey-scented blooms that are irresistible to butterflies and bees, and many gardeners as well. The lilac-like blossoms come in an array of pretty pastel colors, ranging from pink to deep purple, and continue from mid-summer into autumn.

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Zones: 4-9
Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
Mature size: 6 to 12 feet tall and wide
Bloom time: June to September
Flower colors: White

Showy pincushion-like flowers attract butterflies, moths, and other beneficial insects. Native to much of the U.S., this sturdy carefree shrub makes a good substitute in areas where butterfly bush is invasive.

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Zones: 5-9
Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
Mature size: 8 to 12 feet tall, 6 to 10 feet wide, depnding on variety
Bloom time: Mid-summer through October
Flower colors: Shades of white, pink, red, blue, or apricot

Despite its name, this old-fashioned shrub is not a rose at all but a member of the hibiscus family, producing luscious flowers from late summer through mid-autumn when few other shrubs are in bloom.

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Zones: 3-9
Exposure: Partial shade
Mature size: 3 to 8 feet tall, 3 to 6 feet wide, depnding on variety
Bloom time: Late July through August
Flower colors: White or pink

Summersweet is one of the rare flowering shrubs that will bloom in shady places, perfuming the air with a sweet-spicy fragrance attractive to butterflies and bees. The showy white flower spikes come in abundance for 4 to 6 weeks, set off by dark, glossy green leaves that turn attractive shades of yellow to golden brown in fall.

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ABELIA (

Zones: 5-9
Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
Mature size: 3 to 6 feet tall and wide
Bloom time: Late summer through fall
Flower colors: White, pink

Abelia is the perfect choice for gardeners who want an easy-care, somewhat shade-tolerant plant that provides late-season fragrance. From summer through fall, it produces a profusion of rose-tinged white flowers on graceful, arching branches. The trumpet-shaped blooms have a jasmine-like scent that are a magnet for butterflies and hummingbirds.

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Zones: 5-9
Exposure: Partial to full shade
Mature size: 6 to 12 feel tall and wide
Bloom time: Depending on variety, from late fall through spring
Flower colors: Red, pink, white

Camellia is the standout of the winter garden, bearing showy rose-like blooms in shades of white, pink, or red when other shrubs are dormant. The glossy, green foliage of this broadleafed evergreen is also attractive year-round. The bloom season is long and by staggering plantings of early-, mid- and late-season varieties, you can have flowers from November through April or May.

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The most popular flowering shrubs are:

• Rose
• Hydrangea
• Rhododendron
• Rose of Sharon
• Butterfly bush
• Camellia
• Forsythia
• Viburnum
• Lilac
• Weigela
• Spirea
• Abelia
• Cinquefoil
• Summersweet

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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.

Using 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 coniferous plant, 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 fruit-bearing 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 require extensive pruning, 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.

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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 , her flowering shrubs are the center of attraction, but she is whimsical to excess moisture, severe frosts and cold winds.

Japonica

Heather

• blood red hawthorn - grown as a shrub, small tree or hedge, able to grow in almost any conditions, both in 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, which develops red fruits 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. They are covered with medium height with a small number of leaves. And stunted and ground cover plants come to the fore. Plantings of annual flowers are usually placed in front of them.

Here is one example of a perennial mixborder placed along a wall or fence. Its background is decorated with plants: lafanthus, purple echinacea, chatma and clematis. The middle is filled with shrubby cinquefoil, yarrow, fennel polygon, vervain bonar, boxwood, decorative wormwood and onions. In the first rows planted: shrub cinquefoil, geranium, soft cuff, coreopsis.

1. Endress geranium. 2. The cuff is soft. 3. Majestic geranium. 4. Coreopsis whorled. 5. Potentilla shrub. 6. Ptarmic yarrow. 7. Decorative bow. 8. Fennel multi-grate. 9. Bonar verbena. 10. Boxwood. 11. Decorative wormwood. 12. Lofant. 13. Echinacea purpurea. 14. Hatma. 15. Clematis

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Ornamental shrubs - a precious decoration for the garden. Particularly loved by gardeners are those that give beautiful foliage, original shape and long flowering.

Spiraea, or meadowsweet

The advantages of spirea are obvious: it is unpretentious, does not require special soil composition, endures negative effects in the form of frost, air pollution, heat, wind, shade. Seedlings grow into mature plants very quickly. And given that this shrub blooms very beautifully, it becomes clear that this is one of the best options for planting on the site as a hedge. But only low - spirea more than 1.5 m high - a rarity.

Among many varieties which at different times. If you choose varieties and carry out the correct planting, hedges can bloom from spring to late summer. You can focus not on flowering, but on the color of the foliage - red-leaved spireas are very beautiful, as well as having golden foliage.

in a hedge of the fence of the spirea senication at a distance about 50 cm. Immediately before planting, the roots should be cut - this will improve plant survival and shoot growth. In planting pits, in addition to garden soil, you can add a little peat and sand (3: 1: 1). Top dressing is desirable in spring (mainly nitrogen) and at the beginning of budding (more phosphorus and potassium). Reproduction is simple - division of bushes and layering.

Common varieties of spirea:

• Gray
• Arguta
• Wangutta
• Gorodchaty
• Thunberg
• Japanese
• White
• birch leaf
• Billard
• Bumalda

Kalina Buldonezh - the eternal bride

If you want to grow a hedge from viburnum, special attention should be paid to viburnum Buldonezh. According to experts, it is this type of shrub that is better suited than others for creating green fences. Its main advantage is a very beautiful flowering. Unlike the more familiar types of viburnum, this variety has large, terry balls-inflorescences that do not fade for a relatively long time (about 3 weeks).

True, Buldonezh viburnum is an ornamental variety, it does not indulge in berries. But, on the other hand, are they really that important when it comes to hedges? The lack of fruits is fully compensated by the unpretentiousness of the plant and its excellent appearance.

Viburnum is planted every 1.5-2 m in one row - this will be quite enough to get a hedge of a decent size. The shrub propagates with the help of cuttings, seeds, layering or dividing the bush into parts.

Viburnum varieties Buldonezh for the garden

• Buldenezh ordinary
• Bulldonezh decorative
• Bulldonezh Roseum

Lilac - a child of the sun and rainbow

Lilac is a beautiful shrub, suitable "growth", so many people want to see it in hedges. But not all types of lilacs are good in this regard. For example, varietal lilacs, growing up, very quickly become bare from below, moreover, among them there are many non-frost-resistant ones. And for sure: a lilac hedge should not be made by someone who is not going to constantly look after her.

do not grow too tall, can tolerate high humidity of the site, survive dry times with minimal or even no watering. Also, for hedges, experts recommend compact Meyer lilac (1.5 m high), as well as Chinese lilac, which is characterized by rapid growth.

fertile and loose (sandy, clayey, acidic soils are excluded).

Lilac seedlings are planted in the hedge in 1.5-2 m increments. Annual pruning - immediately after flowering, because the faded plant very quickly begins to bud for the next year's flowering.

Favorite varieties of lilacs

• Beauty of Moscow
• Hungarian
• Flora
• Poltava
• Dream
• Partisan
• Twilight
• Princess Clementine
• Taras Bulba
• Great Victory
• Romance
• White Night
• Captain Gastello
• Mulatto
• Alexey Maresyev

Jasmine (moonlight of love)

Luxurious flowering of jasmine, its aroma, fast growth, unpretentiousness, ability to grow on almost any soil, have made this plant incredibly popular for our gardens. From its bushes, an excellent hedge is obtained: dense from bottom to top due to the many branching shoots, decorative from spring to autumn.

In a hedge, seedlings are planted at a distance of 0.5-0.7 m. Usually, they take root well - the root system is strong. It is not difficult to propagate mock orange by dividing the bush or by green cuttings (during the flowering period of the plant).
Recommended varieties of garden jasmine

• Avalanche
• Snow avalanche
• Elbrus
• Mont Blanc
• Komsomolets
• Kazbek
• Arctic
• Flight of the Moths
• Pompom
• Moonlight
• Virginal

Golden Lilac Forsythia

Forsythia is considered by many gardeners to be one of the best choices for hedges. This dense beautiful shrub grows quickly and does not require special attention. A feature of forsythia is early flowering. The bushes are covered with bright yellow flowers even before the rest of the plants in the garden begin to appear green leaves.

Plant forsythia in autumn, before frost. It should be borne in mind that the shrub grows strongly over time and can reach a height of about 3 m, and a width of up to 2. When planting, the optimal distance between individual bushes is 1-1.2 m. When the bushes grow, they form a dense, solid "wall".

Another important feature of growing forsythia is its intolerance to excessive soil moisture. To ensure good water permeability of the soil, it must be loose. Drainage is poured at the bottom of the pits or trenches, where the plants will subsequently be planted. Moreover, the drainage layer should be made quite large - up to 20 cm. A layer of river or construction sand is poured over it.

Forsythia likes alkaline or neutral soils. It is recommended to neutralize the acidity of the earth by adding a small amount of wood ash or lime directly into the planting hole for each bush.

The easiest way to propagate plants is by layering, bending down the lower shoots of the bush to the ground, or by green cuttings in late May-early June.

Best Forsythia

• Variegata
• Spring Glory
• Fortune
• Siebold
• Densiflora
• Tetragold

Weigela - chameleon shrub

Weigela bushes are lush, 1-1.5 m high (rarely more). Although there are dwarf forms of the plant, growing no more than 0.5 m in height. One of the interesting features of this ornamental shrub is its double flowering. The first time weigela blooms in early summer, the second - in September. Moreover, flowering lasts a long time - 15-30 days. The plant loves freedom, so a dense fence cannot be formed with their help, but a free-growing dividing “tape” from it is a miracle.

Weigela prefers areas with good sun exposure. You can not plant this plant in a site with a dense shadow - it will develop slowly, the bushes will become stunted and weak. If there is an artificial or natural barrier nearby that prevents the sun's rays, it is better to choose a different shrub for the hedge.

planted in the spring To do this, choose healthy seedlings up to 3 years old. The distance between individual bushes is made quite large (1.2-1.5 m), since the weigela grows widely. If the moment for planting was missed in the spring, you should not try to plant a hedge in the fall. At this time of the year, the plant does not take root well, and most of the seedlings may simply die.

Weigela loves fertile and, at the same time, well loosened soils. It is optimal to lay a mixture of soddy soil, humus and leafy soil (in equal proportions) in a pit for planting plants. And since the shrub does not tolerate excess moisture, it is recommended to lay a drainage layer at the bottom of each planting pit.

Weigela varieties for gardens in our climate

• Purpurea
• Early
• Korean
• Hybrid
• Eva Rathke
• Rosea
• Middendorf

Japanese quince (chaenomeles) - fire shrub

Japanese quince is a medium-sized shrub that can reach a width and height of 1-1. 2 m. The leaves are green and shiny, may have an original color with a bronze sheen. The flowers are red, raspberry, pink, reach 3-5 cm in diameter. In September, large edible fruits ripen from the flowers, which also look attractive.

Japanese quince is characterized by slow growth. Within one year, the growth of a shrub can be only 3-4 cm. Of course, if ideal conditions are created for the plant, then the growth can be more, but not by much. But Japanese quince is great for creating beautiful dividing hedges on the site. This plant tolerates any negative environmental influences, shading, lends itself perfectly to a haircut.

Japanese quince is best planted in early spring, before the trees begin to bud. If the seedlings were purchased in the fall, planting can be done, but no later than September, each bush must be planted high upon the onset of cold weather.

Keep the distance between individual bushes not too large, about 0.5 m. As for the depth of the hole, it should be such that the root neck remains above the soil surface .

In severe frosts, Japanese quince shoots may freeze slightly, but the bush recovers quickly. Japanese quince is propagated mainly by seeds. Layers and offspring form roots for a very long time, you can get a plant with their help in a few years.

The most beautiful varieties of Japanese quince

• Nika
• Nicholas
• Maulea
• Citrine
• Diamond
• Merlozi
• Simonyi
• Holland
• Snow Queen

Deutsia - the flower of the bride

Deutsia is called the main competitor of spirea. This shrub also blooms profusely and beautifully, reaches a height of 3-4 m and is distinguished by grace. It is not surprising that action is used with pleasure to create hedges.

This plant tolerates partial shade or even shade, but when the plant lacks light, flowering will not be too abundant and lush. To achieve the greatest decorativeness of the hedge, the action must be planted in moist, loose and nutritious soil. Moreover, it must be neutral or alkaline; acidic soil acts depressingly on this shrub. When planting, be sure to add lime or wood ash to the soil to ensure low soil acidity. The distance between the bushes in the hedge is about 1 m, the depth of the planting hole is about 50 cm.

Action is generally well tolerated by negative environmental factors.

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