Here’s a look at 10 forever favorite landscape shrubs! Start researching & deciding which plants to add to your landscape this year! The time is NOW! This warm weather is getting us excited for P L A N T S !!!
1. Wine & Roses Weigela: The standard for purple-leafed weigela, Wine & Roses is used in landscapes across North America as mass planting & foundation plant.
2. Limelight Hydrangea: This award-winning hardy hydrangea is a landscape staple. Excellent as a show-stopping hedge or specimen plant.
3. Summer Wine Ninebark: This cold-hardy, adaptable native is a good mass planting or hedge for exposed sights. Good powdery mildew resistance.
4. Show Off Forsythia: The exceptional flowers display & compact size of this variety of forsythia makes them a superior choice for landscapes.
5. Black Lace Elderberry: Color + texture = excellent design. More adaptable than Japanese maples, Black Lace is a striking accent plant.
6. Lo & Behold Buddleia (Butterfly Bush): Heat-tolerant, deer-resistant, dwarf Lo & Behold Buddleia is a non-invasive way to add fragrance & pollinator appeal to landscapes. Excellent for mass planting.
7. Little Lime Hydrangea: This is the dwarf form of Limelight Hydrangea… the same easy flowering & unusual color of the original, but only 3-5′ tall.
8. Incrediball Hydrangea: An improved variety of hydrangea with LARGE flowers held upright on sturdy stems – no flopping!
9. Little Henry Sweetspire: A dwarf form of native Sweetspire. Little Henry has fragrant white summer flowers and good fall color. It is an excellent shade-tolerant choice for mass plantings.
10. Double Take Flowering Quince: Large, double blooms that look more like camellias than quince. These are thornless & heat-tolerant. They will not litter landscapes with unwanted fruit, & they makes a beautifully durable hedge or specimen plant.