More Types Of Shrub
To Use In Your Garden
by: Paul Curran
Buddleia, the butterfly bush, is 16
feet or more if not killed back by winter, and gets its name from the
fact that in the summer, butterflies are always seen around it. The
buddleia takes many forms: as a small - leaved shrub with small purple
flowers; as fascinating, a cattleya-pink bush; as flaming violet, a
brilliant purple, and as white profusion, a dwarf variety with pure
white flowers. Also the Empire blue shrub, the dubonnet, the red glory
and white cloud.
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Flowering quince (Cydonia) has roselike
flowers and a scarlet bloom in spring. Japanese quince grows to 6
feet; has orange-scarlet flowers.
Deutzia is an easily grown shrub,
pleasing for the many small flowers in spring. Types include the 2- to
3-foot pink deutzia, with its delicate flowers; the pride of
Rochester, with large double white flowers, and Deutzia Lemoinei,
which has large, pure white flowers.
Other shrubs are the dwarf buckeye,
which blossoms in July with 12-inch spikes; the chokeberry bush, liked
for its decorative fruit; broom, which grows in sandy places and
blooms in June and July, and witch hazel, a shrub that grows to 20
feet and has spidery yellow flowers.
Forsythia is a welcome shrub because it
needs little care; with its drooping sprays of yellow flowers, it is
useful for softening the lines of walls.
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Hibiscus blooms in August, a rarity,
with flowers that are large and purple, or rose-pink or white. It
grows to 12 feet if unpruned. Hydrangea, another shrub with large
blossoms blooming in July and August, is a showy bush, with big blue
globe-shaped clusters.
Honeysuckle bushes are useful for mass
planting. Some varieties are especially enjoyable because they blossom
in February and March. Several spirea varieties are found to be useful
as screen plantings, particularly because of their dense growth and
abundant flowering. Anthony Waterer spirea is a 2-foot bush with white
or rose-pink clusters.
Bridal wreath has profuse white
clusters in May. Spirea Thunbergii also has white flowers, and Spirea
Vanhouttei, 8 feet high with dense white flowers, is used as a living
fence.
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Viburnum (the popular snowball) is 10
to 12 feet high at maturity and is used for high foundation, screening
and hedges. It has white snowball-shaped flowers and foliage turns
crimson in fall.
Weigela is popular, too, in many
varieties, including the variegated weigela, a dwarf shrub with rose
flowers and variegated silvery leaf. There is also Weigela rosea, with
rosy trumpet-shaped flowers, and the new brilliant cardinal shrub.
| About The Author Paul Curran is CEO of Cuzcom
Internet Publishing Group and webmaster at
Trees-and-Bushes.com,
providing a range of quality plants, trees, bushes, shrubs, seeds
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