Shrubs are a classification of plants that are generally woody plants with branching that occurs near the base of the plant. Shrubs add beautiful interest and texture to your landscape and come in a variety of styles and sizes. Shrubs can offer a range of foliage textures and colors, and some also bloom. There is a perfect shrub for each landscape or garden type!
A compact plant with an upright habit. Bright green color and light bushy foliage gives the plant a textured appearance. Does well in light shade, tolerates poor drainage. A great hardy upright evergreen for the landscape.
This compact selection of variegated dogwood provides beautiful, variegated foliage in summer and attractive red twigs in winter. Its finer textured, fuller, more compact form lends itself to use in smaller planting areas.
A fine July-August blooming, low, white spirea with flowers in rounded or flat clusters. Foundation or border planting. Sun or light shade. Blooms on new wood, prune back in spring.
As the name implies 'Limelight' has exquisite, bright, lime-green to cream flowers, a beautiful color that adds a much needed brightness to the late summer landscape. In autumn the blooms display shades of pink, burgundy and green. Excellent vigor and floriferous blooming. Prefers loamy, moist, well-drained soil in sun or part shade. Flowers on new wood so it can be pruned in winter or early spring. Hybridized by Pieter Zwijnenburg, Jr. Rarely to never fed on by Japanese beetles. 2006 Gold Medal Plant Award. (CPBRAF)
A dwarf form of the extremely popular 'Limelight' hydrangea, Little Lime® has the same great flowers but is about a third the size of the original. Soft lime-green flowers mature to pink and burgundy in fall.
As cute as a button yet tough as nails, this innovative dwarf aronia may be the closest thing yet to a perfect landscape plant. Adaptable to most any soils, this little beauty offers dark glossy foliage, loads of white flowers in spring, black summer fruit, and intense red foliage in autumn. Ideal for low-maintenance, appealing mass planting. Developed by Dr. Mark Brand of the University of Connecticut. Native.
This hardy lilac from Korea has purple buds that open to single, fragrant, pale lilac flowers when other lilacs have finished. Also known as Syringa velutina, it has leaves larger than S. meyeri and S. microphylla and beautiful burgundy-red fall color.
One of the hardiest rhododendrons for the upper midwest. Masses of mauve flowers bloom in spring putting on a spectacular show. An evergreen with glossy green foliage throughout the growing season, changing to a pleasing purple in the fall. Needs acid, moist, well-drained soil for best performance.
Turn up the drama with Sonic Bloom Wine™ Weigela. It has both delicious dark burgundy foliage color and prolific reblooming, making it a pretty powerful element in the garden. Bubblegum pink blooms arrive spring through summer, delighting pollinators like butterflies and hummingbirds. It fits nicely in borders, foundation plantings, and containers.
Loads of hot pink flowers in May are followed by waves of blooms until frost. No deadheading is needed to see strong reblooming through summer and fall.
