Short Garden Bushes
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Short garden bushes. 5 beautiful dwarf flowering shrubs for small gardens 1. You can fill your garden with ornamental shrubs that bloom from early spring through late fall and even into winter. Flowering shrubs provide color and structure and can be used as groundcovers hedge plants or eye catching focal points. There are thousands of types of evergreen bushes in every imaginable height shape and color.
Bird s nest spruce picea abies nidiformis is a type of norway spruce that grows to resemble a flattened sphere. It s a great choice for year round color or using as a spiky texture contrast for round flowers and is also short enough to use in the front of a bed. They ll tolerate some shade. Regardless it is a beautiful flower that can add lots of life to a shaded space.
Many flowering shrubs also perfume the air with their own signature fragrance. Whether you re a budding gardener or veteran floriculturist there s no shame in wanting to take the easy way out with your backyard foliage that s where these low maintenance shrubs and bushes come in. Butterfly bush is like a summer flowering lilac. Viburnums are some of the toughest shrubs out there and these spring bloomers have pretty white to pinkish white blooms with a distinctively spicy scent and attractive reddish fall foliage.
Whether you live in the snowy north or the sunny south evergreens provide year round color texture and privacy. Hybrid perennial sage a relative of. A tiny little powerhouse of a shrub this compact cultivar of the bush honeysuckle has so much. Suited to larger gardens this 3 foot wide by 5 foot tall perennial creates clouds of blue flowers in late summer.
Russian sage is a full sun perennial and is tolerant of drought and heat. A compact panicle hydrangea that maxes out at just two to three feet tall and equally as wide this. If you live in the frost free zone then it will stay year round. From evergreen flowering shrubs to dwarf evergreen shrubs here are our favorite varieties for your yard.
Plant these perennial flowers at the back of the bed and give them room to grow. From summer into autumn especially if you pinch off the old flower clusters as they start to fade. Happily butterfly bushes offer a longer bloom season than lilacs. Spurge is another that can be a perennial or an annual depending upon where you live.
Plant where you can enjoy the fragrance or as part of a shrub border. We know not everyone has the time or talents to maintain a flourishing flower bed year round from evergreens to winter garden ideas and everything in between these plants give your. However if you live in a colder area then it is an annual. The top of the plant has a slight depression which gives the effect of a bird s nest.
Plants grow 2 to 3 feet tall and wide the perfect size for a foundation planting or rock garden and thrives in zones 3 to 7.