Purple Flowering Shrubs Nz
Flowering shrubs with lavender or blue blossoms shrubs with blue flowers or lavender flowers are among the most treasured bushes in the landscape.
Purple flowering shrubs nz. Continue to 8 of 11 below. This flowery beauty grows best in part to full shade. One such beauty is the acid loving calico bush kalmia latifolia. There is a hardy geranium for all conditions from full sun right through to dry.
Lily of the valley. Species types growing 6 to 10 feet in height but smaller cultivars are also available such as the double take series which grows to only about 4 feet. The flower clusters of common lilac shrubs syringa vulgaris are just as beautiful as those of wisteria and their incredible fragrance may very well put them over the top as the best of the best shrubs with purple flowers. Happily butterfly bushes offer a longer bloom season than lilacs.
You can find varieties with blossoms in nearly any shade although pastels and reds are most common. These shrubs have glossy green leaves and spring flowers in shades of pinks peach coral purple or white. Rhododendron rhododendron handy man purple nothing says spring like a rhododendron in full bloom. New zealand was like a botanical garden.
Botanically every inch of the country is rich with flowers shrubs and trees native and introduced. Commonly known as lilyturf all four species of these grass like blooms are perennials. It s also one of the. I especially loved all the native tree ferns and i wish i had more time to study them.
They do come in other colors but purple lilacs are favored by many gardeners. Flowering quince is a thorny shrub with multiple stems that blooms in late winter and early spring before leaves open. From summer into autumn especially if you pinch off the old flower clusters as they start to fade. Blue and lavender and similar shades associated with purple such as lilac are considered cool colors in color theory.
Pixabay hardy cranesbill geraniums have gorgeous foliage and flowers in shades of white pink blue and purple. When i was a kid in whangarei we called them icing plants says trish for the pink and white flowers look like a cake. The blooms appear in similar colors purple lavender blue pink and white and are deliciously fragrant. Butterfly bush is like a summer flowering lilac.