Shrubs That Bloom Purple Flowers
Happily butterfly bushes offer a longer bloom season than lilacs.
Shrubs that bloom purple flowers. The blooms appear in similar colors purple lavender blue pink and white and are deliciously fragrant. 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. It blooms anytime during midwinter. Its white and purple pink flower clusters are nestled above its heart shaped leaves which are either cream sage green or deep green in color.
Bougainvillea comes in several colors. Daphne odora aureomarginata this evergreen shrub with its beautiful clusters of fragrant pink flowers looks great. From summer into autumn especially if you pinch off the old flower clusters as they start to fade. They ll tolerate some shade.
Verbena is a beautiful plant that produces small purple blooms all summer long. Plant where you can enjoy the fragrance or as part of a shrub border. Despite its somewhat messy growth habit this shrub produces beautiful red orange white or pink flowers that bloom as early as march or april. Purple queen is an example of a type with purple flowers.
They look best during late summer and in autumn. Lilacs are some of the best smelling shrubs you can grow while rhododendrons are evergreen bushes that thrive in partial shade. The flowering quince is a multi stemmed deciduous shrub. Bees and butterflies are attracted to the shrub and they are exceptional drought tolerant perennials.
Butterfly bush is like a summer flowering lilac. The hardy shrub flowers in the summer and provides your landscape with shades of lilac purple or pink blooms. Below you ll find even more spring bloomers. It is perfect when mixed into some evergreen ground cover plants.
The flowers are traditionally used in floral arrangements. If you re looking for a spring flowering shrub a lilac or rhododendron is an excellent choice.