10 Flowering Bushes With The Most Beautiful Blooms
04.08.2023 - 23:29
/ gardeningknowhow.com
/ Teo Spengler
Flowering shrubs can grace your garden, adding color, interest and sometimes fragrance to the home landscape. For the biggest, showiest flowers, you’ll also need to take into account the sun exposure of the garden site. But never fear, there are flowering shrubs for landscaping that like sun and others that like shade.
Everyone will have their own list of best flowering shrubs. Here are some we love that you might like to consider.
Many shrubs that seem to have huge flowers actually have large clusters of small flowers instead. The popular panicle hydrangea is one of these, with pointed panicles of creamy blossoms. They are extremely showy from the moment they flower, but continue to delight throughout the season. As they mature, the white blooms turn pink, then bronze, and they can hang onto the branches long into the winter. They thrive in USDA zones 3-8.
Buddleia or butterfly bush can’t be beat for ornamental blooms. It grows rapidly to 6 feet (1.8 m) or taller and, during the summer/fall season, is covered with masses of indigo blue, fragrant panicles. It is so independent and easy to grow that the flowering shrub has the reputation of becoming invasive. Alternatively, select a hybrid that’s more compact, has more blossoms, and doesn’t self-seed. Buddleia are among the best flowering bushes for attracting butterflies as well, as the common name suggests.
Crepe myrtle is known as the flowering shrub of the American South, with enormous, papery clusters of bright red and rose flowers some 6-10 inches (15-25 cm) long. Modern cultivars are hardy down to USDA hardiness zone 6 and offer additional flower shades including white, lavender and purple. It is possible to find cultivars with fragrant blooms.
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