Shrubs for Your Landscape

These are popular shrubs for your landscape. Next to trees, they are the most dominant anchoring points of the landscape.

Shrubs can be enjoyed for their foliage, whether it is the style of the leaves or the color. Some for the beautiful flowers that they produce. Some are evergreen, while most are known as deciduous.

Evergreen varieties

Evergreen varieties include junipers and arborvitaes, as well as hollies and some rhododendrons. Many of them don’t even produce flowers. Some are actually shades of yellow but still evergreen.

They just keep their foliage through winter. That foliage may be wide leaves or leaves that resemble dull flat needles. They may change color for the colder months, but keep their decoration on.

Arborvitaes and junipers don’t put out any noticeable flowers. They are more for year-round standards. Evergreens like hollies and rhododendrons do flower.

Deciduous choices

These shrubs have what we think of as traditional leaves. Once the temperatures drop in fall and daylight hours seem way too short, all of their leaves drop. Some may change into some pretty colors of reds, oranges, or yellows before hand. Most just seem to go ugly and the leaves drop off.

One of the best features of deciduous shrubs is their flowers. While most only bloom for a short period of time, they are usually quite spectacular. There are varieties of that even have variegated leaves.

Some are very fragrant and showy while others get almost completely covered in blooms. Flower forms vary from many large singular flowers to large clusters of tiny flowers that give the appearance of a larger flower.

Bees, butterflies, and even hummingbirds will appreciate the flowering shrubs in your yard. Growing different kinds will offer flowers throughout the season. You can actually have something blooming from very early in spring right up to frost.