Flowering Shrubs

Flowering Shrubs fill your garden with fragrance and color. Perfect for birds and butterflies and of course, fairies!

Flowering Shrubs are the cornerstones of your garden. They provide your garden with seasonal color year after year with beautiful flowers, bright berries and brilliant fall foliage.
They attract and encourage birds, butterflies and wildlife to the garden and add interest to a winter landscape.


Pink Flowering Almond


The Pink Almond is a small flowering shrub. It blooms in early spring with a display of very light pink flowers before the leaves appear.

Carolina Allspice


Also called Sweetshrub and Strawberry bush because of the fragrant blooms which have been described as combining hints of pineapple, strawberry and banana.

Barberry - Red Leaf Japanese


The Red Leaf Japanese bush has small leaves of deep red to purple color. The dainty yellow flowers blooms from April to May. Bright red berries can be found along stems from late fall through winter.

Burning Bush - Compacta


The Burning Bush has an outstanding red fall color. The deep dark red leaves almost glow with color in the fall. And there is the bonus of orange and red fruit for wildlife.

Burning Bush-Bursting Heart


The Bursting Heart bush is a favorite of early fall. You will be delighted with heart shaped raspberry-red seed pods.

Butterfly Bush-Claret Purple


Flowers summer though fall and is a magnet for all the butterflies that pass through your garden seeking nectar.

Chokeberry - Red


The Red Chokeberry bush is noted for its attractive glossy red berries and red fall foliage color. Clusters of white to pinkish flowers appear in spring.

European Cranberry


The Snowball Bush produces white flowers in late spring. In the fall, the leaves turn a wonderful burgundy with berries that persist on the plant throughout the winter. Cedar Waxwings are very fond of the berries and can often be found snacking during the winter.

Elderberry - American


The American Elderberry bush produces attractive clusters of white flowers and purple berries all season long.

Laurel - Mountain Laurel


Mountain Laurel is an evergreen flowering shrub with dainty pink, red and white flowers. It grows upright and has beautiful tough glossy foliage.

Lindera Spice Bush


The Spicebush blooms with clusters of tiny, aromatic, yellow flowers in early spring. Lindera leaves are aromatic when crushed. The caterpillar of the spicebush swallowtail butterfly feeds on the leaves of this shrub.

False Indigo Bush


False Indigo has fragrant foliage with blue, lavender, purple flowers. This hardy bush is a favorite of butterflies.

Forsythia - Lynwood Gold


Lynwood Gold is an old time favorite with an upright spreading habit and big yellow flowers up the entire length of stem.

Forsythia - Spectabilis


This Forsythia has profuse, yellow, spring flowers are followed by medium green summer foliage.

Heavenly Bamboo


Nadina is an evergreen shrub with new leaves of coppery to purplish-red, becoming blue green with age. Blooms with tiny pink flowers in May - June.
 

Hydrangea - Grandiflora

Hydrangea - Nikko Blue

Hydrangea - Oakleaf

Hydrangeas are a favorite American garden plant and highly valued for its vigor and bloom dependability. The flowers appear in August and remain on the plant until the first hard frost. This flowering bush will be a fantastic show of color in your garden.

 

Lilac - Common purple
The Lilac bush is loved by gardeners all over the world for its beauty and fragrance; one of the most powerful fragrances emitted by a plant. Captivating fragrance, gorgeous flowers.

Lilac - Korean

Lilac - Miss Canada

Lilac - Persian

Lilac - White Persian
 

Potentilla-Coronation Triump


The Coronation Potentilla is a small shrub that is one of the earliest bloomers with bright yellow flowers. It offers excellent dark green foliage all season long that turns copper in the fall.

Potentilla - Abbotswood


The Abbotswood Potentilla is a beautiful small mounded flowering shrub with large, white flowers. Ideal for foundation plantings, it has Bluish-green foliage that turns copper in the fall.

Potentilla - Tangerine


The Tangerine Potentilla is an excellent but rare wildlife shrub that blooms orange flowers from early spring to late fall. The grey green foliage spreads to a thick ground cover
 

Rose of Sharon - Aphrodite

Rose of Sharon - Ardens

Rose of Sharon - Diana
Rose of Sharon blooms from late spring to fall with large, flat Hibiscus blossoms. This flowering shrub comes in several colors, including white, pink, purple, and red. Great to attract hummingbirds.

Rose of Sharon - Lucy

Rose of Sharon-Jeanne DArc

Rose of Sharon-Morning Star
 


Spiraea - Frobeli


The Spiraea is a showy flowering shrub with profuse clusters of flowers that cover the arching stems of this plant in late spring, early summer. The flowers attract butterflies.


Spiraea - Little Princess

Spiraea - Snowmound

Spiraea - Goldflame

Spiraea - Van Houtteis
 


Viburnum - Arrowwood

Viburnum is a garden favorite with clusters of white flowers. Fall foliage is colorful yellows, reds and purples - with berries for birds and wildlife.


Viburnum - Doublefile
 

Weigela - Pink

Weigela - Red

Weigela - Red Prince

Weigela bush is known for it's showy pink, red and variegated bell shaped flowers. Loved by Hummingbirds and gardeners alike, the flowers hold late into the season. This hardy flowering shrub has dark green leaves and blooms from late spring to early summer.


Weigela - Variegated

Witch-hazel - Common


The Witch Hazel bush is extraordinary in its flowering habits. It flowers in late October to early December. Many times its slender yellow petals are the only signs of color in the dormant woods.

Witch-hazel - Vernal


The Vernal Witch Hazel is a winter-blooming shrub. (January to February-March) The fragrant, globular flower clusters have yellow petals and reddish inner calyxes.

 

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