Low maintenance shrubs 18 choices for your garden

Low maintenance shrubs: 18 choices for your garden

• Weigela is a great low maintenance flowering shrub the hummingbirds adore. ...
• Dwarf Korean lilacs offer fragrant spring blooms and a compact habit. ...
• Smokebushes come in green and red-leaved varieties. ...
• Japanese spirea produces flat-topped bloom clusters and requires very little maintenance.

1. What are the best low maintenance shrubs?
2. What shrubs look good all year round?
3. What are the best low maintenance evergreen shrubs?
4. What bushes are easy to maintain?
5. What are the best shrubs for front of house?
6. What are the easiest shrubs to grow?
7. What shrubs love full sun?
8. What bushes stay green all year long?
9. What evergreen shrubs grow well in full sun?
10. What are the fastest growing evergreen shrubs?
11. What are the best evergreen shrubs?
12. Which shrubs flower the longest?

What are the best low maintenance shrubs?

17 Low-Maintenance Plants and Dwarf Shrubs

• Butterfly Bush. Prune these plants by late August, so plants have time to harden off before freezes arrive. ...
• Fringe Tree. ...
• Coral Bells. ...
• Denver Daisy. ...
• Ninebark. ...
• Contoneaster. ...
• Purple Pixie. ...
• Agapanthus.

What shrubs look good all year round?

31 Flowering Shrubs for Year-Round Color

• Fothergilla. Bottlebrush-like blooms open at branch tips in early spring, before leaves appear. ...
• Azalea. Spring explodes with color when you include azaleas in your yard. ...
• Mountain Laurel. ...
• Rhododendron. ...
• Weigela. ...
• English Lavender. ...
• Lilac. ...
• French Hydrangea.

What are the best low maintenance evergreen shrubs?

10 Great Low-Maintenance, Dwarf Shrubs

• Franklin's Gem Boxwood. Boxwood are the king of evergreens! ...
• Magic Carpet Spirea. Magic Carpet Spirea is an excellent choice for adding curb appeal to your home. ...
• Dwarf Norway Spruce. ...
• My Monet Weigela. ...
• Emerald 'N Gold Euonymus. ...
• Fox Red Curly Sedge. ...
• Dwarf Japanese Garden Juniper. ...
• Cityline® Paris Hydrangea.

What bushes are easy to maintain?

Junipers are easy-to-maintain shrubs. 'Good Vibrations' Gold Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis), shown here, is an evergreen with yellow-green foliage that takes on bronze-orange tones in fall and winter. Plant junipers in average, well-drained soil. Fertilize in early spring and prune, if desired, in early spring.

What are the best shrubs for front of house?

Upright conical evergreen trees and shrubs such as arborvitae, spruces, boxwood, and yews are excellent choices for planting at house corners. Columnar trees can frame the front of your house and accent your other foundation plants.

What are the easiest shrubs to grow?

• Double Play^® Gold Spiraea. Double Play^® Gold spirea shines in the landscape from spring to fall with little to no pruning needed. ...
• Gatsby Gal^® Hydrangea. Native oakleaf hydrangeas like Gatsby Gal^® are easy to grow in sun or part shade. ...
• Oso Easy^® Cherry Pie Rosa. ...
• North Pole^® Arborvitae. ...
• Spilled Wine^® Weigela.

What shrubs love full sun?

18 Flowering Shrubs for Sun

• Wine and Roses Weigela (Weigela florida 'Alexandra') ...
• Mock Orange (Philadelphus coronarius) ...
• Midnight Wine Weigela. ...
• Japanese Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles 'Pink Lady') ...
• American Cranberrybush (Viburnum opulus var. ...
• Sunshine Blue Bluebeard (Caryopteris incana 'Jason')

What bushes stay green all year long?

Evergreen Shrubs Bring Non-Stop Color

• Variegated Winter Daphne. Fill late winter and early spring with the sweet fragrance of daphne. ...
• Bird's Nest Spruce. ...
• October Magic Ruby Camellia. ...
• English Lavender. ...
• Sprinter Boxwood. ...
• Kramer's Red Winter Heath. ...
• Mountain Laurel. ...
• Romeo Cleyera.

What evergreen shrubs grow well in full sun?

Evergreen Shrubs for Sun

Some are flowering, like gardenia (Gardenia augusta) with their elegant blossoms, while others offer glossy leaves and bright berries, like holly varieties (Ilex spp.) Other interesting evergreen shrubs for sun include bamboo-like nandina (Nandina domestica) or cotoneaster (Cotoneaster spp.)

What are the fastest growing evergreen shrubs?

7 Fast-Growing Shrubs

• North Privet. Ligustrum x ibolium. This deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub is America's fasting-growing hedge, growing up to 3′ per year. ...
• Forsythia. Forsythia x intermedia. ...
• Crapemyrtle. Lagerstroemia indica. ...
• Beautybush. Kolkwitzia amabilis. ...
• American Hazelnut. Corylus americana. ...
• Pee Gee Hydrangea. Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora'

What are the best evergreen shrubs?

Top 10 Evergreen Shrubs

• Fatsia.
• Lavender.
• Aucuba.
• Camellia.
• Euonymus.
• Mahonia.
• Photinia.
• Holly.

Which shrubs flower the longest?

Butterfly bush have one of the longest bloom times of all garden plants: they seem to never be without flowers from early summer through autumn. This makes them perhaps better called “continuous bloomers” over rebloomers, since they don't really take a break like other plants on this list do.