25+ Short Flowering Shrubs

Clethra is a popular shrub known for its fragrance shade tolerance and bright summer blooms.

Short flowering shrubs. Most clethras grow 8 to 12 feet but now you can have this beauty in your own small space with this compact version which reaches only 2 to 5 feet. If you re looking for a spring flowering shrub a lilac or rhododendron is an excellent choice. Mountain laurel kalmia latifolia minuet is a broadleaf evergreen that. It s a great choice for year round color or using as a spiky texture contrast for round flowers and is also short enough to use in the front of a bed. Plant size is 4 to 5 feet tall and wide at maturity. Hardy in zones 4 8. 8 best small evergreen shrubs winter heath erica carnea.

A tiny little powerhouse of a shrub this compact cultivar of the bush honeysuckle has so much. Mountain laurel kalmia latifolia minuet. Butterfly bush is like a summer flowering lilac. Plant where you can enjoy the fragrance or as part of a shrub border. Lilacs are some of the best smelling shrubs you can grow while rhododendrons are evergreen bushes that thrive in partial shade. 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. From summer into autumn especially if you pinch off the old flower clusters as they start to fade.

Happily butterfly bushes offer a longer bloom season than lilacs. 5 beautiful dwarf flowering shrubs for small gardens 1. Blue star juniper. 15 recommended flowering shrubs for your home andromeda pieris japonica rose of sharon hibiscus syriacus bluebeard caryopteris clandonensis flowering quince chaenomeles speciosa forsythia forsythia x intermidia japanese kerria kerria japonica hardy hibiscus hibiscus moscheutos. As one of the more popular small shrubs and bushes the rainbow fizz spirea is a small flowering shrub that produces a beautiful multicolored display of small flowers streaked with colors of flame rust and red wine. Many first time growers of this small evergreen shrub quickly become impressed with its. Below you ll find even more spring bloomers.

It is quite hardy and can survive a rough winter season of snow and ice with ease. This more compact yellow striped ornamental grass does not turn brown in the winter. The blooms appear in similar colors purple lavender blue pink and white and are deliciously fragrant. Shop perennial gardening books. Sonic bloom pink weigela weigela florida bokrasopin is a reblooming weigela that delivers a stunning flower show in late spring to early summer followed by a steady march of blooms until fall frost. The pink flowers are a hummingbird favorite.