... and soften harsh house lines.
CONTINUOUS BLOOM FOR YOUR LANDSCAPE
Whether you are selecting shrubs for the foundation plantings around the house or for a shrub border in your yard, choose shrubs that will bloom at different seasons. Most of the flowering shrubs that are available bloom during the spring. Once some shrubs have finished blooming, they have no other ornamental features. The interest in your landscape will be lost, unless you have selected some summer-blooming shrubs. Attempt to design your landscape so you can have continuous shrub bloom from early spring through late summer.
SHRUB ORDER OF BLOOM
EARLY SPRING
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS (Medium) Redbud Chinese Willow, Pussy DECIDUOUS SHRUBS (Tall) Cherry, Nanking Crabapple, Sargent Forsythia Magnolia, Star DECIDUOUS SHRUBS (Small) Honeysuckle, Winter (Fragrant) Quince, Flowering DECIDUOUS SHRUBS (Dwarf) Quince, Japanese Flowering Forsythia, Bronx BROADLEAF EVERGREEN SHRUBS Magnolia, Southern
LATE SPRING
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS (Tall) Cranberrybush Dogwood, Gray Honeysuckle, Tatarian Lilac Maple, Amur Olive, Autumn Pearlbush Pea Shrub Plum, Flowering Snowball Viburnum Wayfaring Tree DECIDUOUS SHRUBS (Medium) Barberry Bayberry, Northern Beautybush Cotoneaster, Large Flowering Deutzia, Lemoine Dogwood Honeysuckle, Morrow Honeysuckle, Zabel Jetbead, Black Privit Sand Cherry, Purpleleaf Scotch Broom Spirea, Bridalwreath Spirea, Vanhoutte Viburnum DECIDUOUS SHRUBS (Small) Almond, Flowering Barberry, Japanese Cotoneaster, Spreading Kerria Lilac, Dwarf Korean Spirea, Garland Spirea, Thunberg Weigela DECIDUOUS SHRUBS (Dwarf) Barberry, Crimson Pygmy Cotoneaster, Cranberry Deutzia Pea Shrub, Pygmy Quince, Japanese Flowering Spirea, Snowmound BROADLEAF EVERGREEN SHRUBS Barberry, Wintergreen Mahonia, Oregon Grape Pyracantha Viburnum, Leatherleaf