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List of Flowering Bushes
List of Flowering Bushes. Flowers add color to gardens and landscapes. Flowering bushes add color, structure and definition. There are many types of attractive flowering shrubs, and you should consider adding one or more to your landscape design. These bushes can soften a hard corner, direct the eye and lend some color to an area that needs a...
Flowers add color to gardens and landscapes. Flowering bushes add color, structure and definition. There are many types of attractive flowering shrubs, and you should consider adding one or more to your landscape design. These bushes can soften a hard corner, direct the eye and lend some color to an area that needs a boost.
Rose of Sharon
A member of the hibiscus family, the Rose of Sharon bush flowers mid to late summer through September. Blossoms are showy and can be up to four inches in diameter, in white, purple, violet and red, sometimes in combination. The National Gardening Association says Rose of Sharon is pollution tolerant and easy to maintain. Growing 8 to 12 feet high, and 6 to 10 feet wide, this large shrub is useful in groupings as hedges and as specimens. Hardy in USDA Hardiness Zones 5 through 8, and sometimes 9, this is a flowering shrub that is useful in many landscapes throughout the U.S.
Summersweet Clethra
The clethra shrub is smallish, growing only 2 to 3 feet in height. It grows readily in shady areas with moist soil, making it valuable to gardeners who don't have lots of sunny areas to work with. Clethra makes a wonderful flowering border, with highly fragrant white flowers in summer, and a beautiful yellow or golden brown foliage color in fall. Two varieties of clethra, "Pink Spires" and "Rosea" offer pink flowers. The summersweet shrub grows in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9, making it useful in almost all U.S. climates.
Lilac
The lilac is among the most popular flowering bushes and, according to "The Manual of Woody Landscape Plants," has a lot of nostalgic feelings attached to it. People in hardiness zones 3 to 7 seem to associate this shrub that produces highly fragrant flowers with mom or grandmother. The main attraction is the flowers that come each spring, lasting for a few weeks to a month or so. After bloom, the plant offers clear green foliage on large rounded plants that work well for screening, or in groups. There are a number of lilac cultivars that produce flowers in white, purple, pink, blue and even yellow.
Fothergilla
Both the large and dwarf forms of fothergilla are excellent flowering shrubs for the yard. Interesting white bottlebrush flowers appear in spring, and are extremely fragrant. The fall foliage color is brilliant in orange, scarlet, red or a combination. The dwarf fothergilla tolerates hardiness zones from 5 to 8, and will grow in part to full sun and well-drained soil. Large fothergilla is hardy in zones 4 to 8 and needs part to full sun and good drainage. Both have a definite preference for soil that is on the acidic side.
