Landscaping Small Shrubs For Sun

Award winning beauty with burgundy stems and leaves and pale pink button flowers in spring and summer.

Landscaping small shrubs for sun. The foliage tends to get greener as the weather heats up. In late summer and autumn this rugged shrub produces fluffy clusters of white flowers that fade to shades of pink and green. Forsythia is a great flowering shrub for very early season blooms in sunny locations though it can work in part shade as well. They ll tolerate some shade.

Grow this 3 foot tall hydrangea in full to part sun in zones 3 to 9. Why we love it. The matte silver green foliage has a loose growing habit with a slightly triangular shape. Beauty is available year round with this small tree.

This is one of the hardiest full sun shrubs available with a vigorous growth pattern and mountains of small star shaped sweet scented flowers from early summertime. Useful for small urban gardens mass plantings or a low maintenance landscape. During the spring and early summer it sports dark purple foliage which contrasts well next to brighter plants. The cone shaped flowers are white when they open but they age to bright red pink.

Plant where you can enjoy the fragrance or as part of a shrub border. And like all hydrangeas this plant needs very little maintenance to encourage its abundant blooms. At maturity you can expect a height of around 4 metres from this silver leaved beauty. Hydrangea paniculata is the easiest hydrangea to grow.

Lilacs come in a variety of shapes and sizes from dwarf types that fit small entry gardens to tall varieties like mount baker and pocahontas pictured which reach 10 to 12 feet tall. This dogwood is one of the trees bushes and shrubs for partial shade or full sun and does best in hardiness zones two to eight. Partial shade to full sun. Hardy in zones 2 to 7.

These shrubs perform best and open the most flowers in full sun. With red twig dogwood you can have a plant that you can use as a privacy screen for erosion control or just a border for your flower garden. Up to 4 tall and wide. Prune immediately after flowering.

Many cultivars such as tardiva can be successfully trained into a standard or miniature tree form perfect for a large container or just about any landscape spot. This dwarf shrub bears abundant white blooms that stay white in any soil. Viburnums are some of the toughest shrubs out there and these spring bloomers have pretty white to pinkish white blooms with a distinctively spicy scent and attractive reddish fall foliage. For many northern gardeners forsythia is the first shrub that blooms each spring almost as soon as the snow melts.