Colorful Bushes

Breath of heaven.

Colorful bushes. But not all shrubs are suited to the supporting role. 9 shrubs for foliage color artemisia. This native typically grows 5 to 8 feet tall and wide. In mixed borders their soft hues temper reds and. Plant where you can enjoy the fragrance or as part of a shrub border. Ideal for back of the border locations smokebush shows off velvet purple foliage that turns a rich shade of orange red in the fall. They ll tolerate some shade.

49 colorful plants to brighten up your landscape sweat pea. As the name suggests sweet pea is sweetly fragrant when blooming in spring. It also bears fluffy clusters of pink flowers in early summer. Vibe ignition purple is a salvia and jamensis hybrid with both beauty and brawn. Fast growing shrubs for year round color daphne daphne mezereum azalea vibrant shrubs glossy leaf paper plant fatsia japonica lavender lavandula stoechas repelling shrubs spotted laurel aucuba japonica camellia camellia reticulata the flowering shrub spindle tree burning bush. To 15 feet tall and wide zones. Most shrubs are the unsung heroes of the garden.

It s also quite ornamental. Cotinus velvet cloak size. 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. Their solid green and variegated foliage is the perfect canvas for a gardener who paints with flowers. These spiny stemmed relatives of mahonia are easy to grow and tolerate tough conditions very poor. Shrubs play a pivotal role in garden aesthetics providing a backdrop for colorful floral standouts. A native plant mountain laurel kalmia latifolia has pink buds in spring that open to white cup shape flowers.

Mountain laurel is a stand out evergreen shrub because it tolerates shade although best flowering occurs in light shade.