Some of our Top Foundation Shrubs Below is a list of the foundation shrubs that we use over and over again. Can take full sun. It keeps its burgundy color year round! If you need a larger version, look at Purple Diamond Loropetalum. It flowers in July with fragrant white blooms. Can take partial to full sun. Another great Gardenia is Frost Proof if you need a taller shrub. Georgia Petite Indian Hawthorn Another small shrub that flowers in the spring.
It reaches 2. It can also take full sun. It does have one drawback, the deer seem to like it! The varieties of smoke bushes experience fall foliage in different shades of pink, purple, red, and coral. Also, these shrubs offer creamy-white flowers in spring.
Smoke bushes thrive well in zones 4 to 8. You can grow them in both full sun and partial sun locations. However, their fall color and blooms come at their best with at least six direct sunlight hours. Pruning and trimming are not recommended at the initial stages of this shrub.
The Rosa Knock Out is legit one of the best low-growing shrubs for front of the house you will find out there.
With little care and maintenance, this shrub gives you, colorful borderline for your house. This is a fast-growing compact shrub that grows not more than 3 to 4 feet in width and height.
The shrub blooms in shades of red, yellow, pink, and white from spring throughout the fall. These shrubs love the sun and thrive well in zones 5 to Moreover, they prefer slightly acidic and well-drained soil with little pruning and trimming. The Elegantissima Red twig is a fast-growing deciduous shrub. This shrub provides year-round visual interests with its berries, variegated leaves, and fall foliage. The berries come in white color, often with tinged blue and green, and the flowers bloom in white color for a long time.
It experiences foliage in the fall in shades of rich-red, apricot, and golden. You can plant this shrub in all locations, but the colors enhance only in direct sunlight. This shrub grows around 6 to 10 feet in height and width. The Skimmia Japonica or Japanese Skimmia is an evergreen flowering shrub that grows rounded. It can be seen cultivated widely as an ornamental plant in gardens and parks.
The shrub shows glossy, and leathery green leaves and blooms stay on this shrub almost all year-round in shades of white and pink. It also offers attractive bright berries which attract hummingbirds. This evergreen shrub thrives the best in shaded locations and grows up to a height of 20 feet tall.
If you plan to add some color to your garden, this shrub will do it in the best way for you. This is a dense, evergreen, needled shrub with elegant silvery-blue foliage. The blue star juniper gets its name because the shrub looks like stars in clusters from a far-off view.
The needles on this shrub come in all shapes. This is a slow-growing shrub that reaches up to a height of 1 to 3 feet and spreads equally. It is best to plant this shrub in full sun locations. This drought-tolerant shrub is considered hardy in zones 4 to 8.
The Cherry Laurel is a handsome evergreen shrub or small tree. This shrub produces white flowers in erect racemes of around ten to12 inches. These flowers bloom between May and June with a sweet fragrance, and then cherry-like red fruits grow on this shrub. The red fruits turn black with time. These fruits also attract various birds to the garden.
However, this shrub also attracts several pests easily. Cherry Laurel can grow up to 20 to 25 feet of height in time quickly. However, it is also easy to maintain this shrub to a low height with proper pruning and trimming. Leucothoe is a genus of around six species. Some of these species are evergreen, while some are deciduous. Many of its species are also known as dog hobble.
These shrubs grow glossy green leaves in medium to dark shades. These leaves turn into bronze and red shade in the fall. All its species bear bell-shaped flowers in white with shades of blue.
These tiny bells are said to become five-lobed globular flowers. All its species grow in a vase-like shape from 2 to 5 feet tall. Both full sun and partial sun location work for this shrub.
They require plenty of moisture and moderately acidic soil. Resembling an azalea, its leaves are small and leathery, turning purplish in the fall. Spring flowers are pinkish-lavender. Seven-sons flower grows to 15 feet, so is an example of a "trub" because sometimes it is shaped to grow more like a tree. Its soft green foliage shows off 6-inch-long clusters of fragrant ivory flowers in late summer. It prefers moist soil but tolerates drought, too. Plant it in full to part shade.
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That is, most of the flowering shrubs are already finished blooming, yet it is too early for the autumn colors displayed by the top shrubs for fall foliage. You need something in late summer to bridge the gap. Two of your best choices actually belong to the same genus, despite being very different-looking plants:. Rose of Sharon is the taller of the two. In fact, many mistakenly call it a "tree. It dies back to ground level in winter, the way your perennials do.
And it takes its sweet time about popping back up out of the ground again in spring. Many beginners panic and think it is dead, but they do not need to worry: New shoots will eventually appear. Both shrubs are late-summer bloomers that help you distribute color in your landscape throughout the year.
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