Autumn Royalty® Encore® Azalea
Introduction Unique Purple Color!!! Year round color Re-blooming purple flowers in spring and summer Great for adding color to your landscape Pest...
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Introduction Unique Purple Color!!! Year round color Re-blooming purple flowers in spring and summer Great for adding color to your landscape Pest...
View full detailsIntroduction Amazing Bright Red-Orange Blooms! Re-bloomer Perfect for brightening your landscape Pest and disease resistant Low maintenance Great ...
View full detailsIntroduction All the Beauty and Fragrance of a Gardenia in a Small Package! Perfect ground cover, border, foundation, or container gardenia Pretty...
View full detailsIntroduction Add Some Excitement and Beauty to your Landscape! Rich, dark green to vivid, light green foliage! Leave unpruned for a natural look a...
View full detailsIntroduction Stunning, Full, Colorful Winter Blooms Gorgeous privacy hedge Big, bright blooms in late winter to early spring Light, sweet fragranc...
View full detailsIntroduction Perfect Evergreen Hedge Plant! Add Property Value instantly! Medium green leaves shimmer in the landscape All Burford Hollies have br...
View full detailsIntroduction Fast Growing Juniper with Shrub Height and Ground Cover Look and Function Add year-round color and texture to your landscape! Great f...
View full detailsThe Heavenly Bamboo Nandina has the most phenomenal year-round color and interest that you can find in a shrub. This evergreen plant offers stunnin...
View full detailsSedum ‘Angelina’ cultivars are known for their brightly colored chartreuse to yellow, needle-like foliage. This foliage is evergreen in warmer clim...
View full detailsIntroduction Exciting, New Broadleaf Evergreen that Flowers in Winter! Delightfully deep green foliage Delicate, deep Red flowers January to March...
View full detailsIntroduction Beautiful and Unique Specimen Shrub Pine Cold Hardy Create a Dense Privacy Screen! Deer Resistant, Salt and Pollution Tolerant Year-R...
View full detailsIntroduction Add Amazing Color to Any Space with this New Dwarf Variety Extremely popular! Does not require pruning Deep ruby red foliage fades fr...
View full detailsIntroduction Pretty in Pink Petals for THREE Seasons! Perfect pink blooms in spring, summer, and fall! Large, silky 3 inch flowers Thrives in full...
View full detailsIntroduction A Perfect Privacy Screen for Cooler Regions Dense, Deep Green Foliage Attractive Red Berries Welcome Birds Year-Round Interest A Uniq...
View full detailsIntroduction Many reasons to add this enchanting evergreen to your landscape Naturally rounded shape Extremely cold Hardy Pollution Tolerant Des...
View full detailsIntroduction Small Evergreen Shrub Great for Borders and Low Hedges Tidy, Compact Evergreen Heat, Drought, Wind and Salt Tolerant Disease and Dee...
View full detailsIntroduction Try a Classic: The Ruby Loropetalum Low maintenance Evergreen, red foliage Add great color to your landscape Perfect for unique hedge...
View full detailsIntroduction Upright, Columnar Camellia with Clusters of Petite Double Blooms Prolific Bloomer Salmon Pink Blooms in Fall Easy to Grow Deer and Di...
View full detailsIntroduction A Unique Evergreen Shrub for the Shade Garden Dwarf Plum Yew Spreading, Mounded Habit Nice for Mass Plantings, Low Hedges and Borders...
View full detailsAlso known as the Schipka Cherry Laurel, this hardy evergreen shrub grows very dense, making it perfect for privacy hedges or windbreaks. It grows ...
View full detailsIntroduction Beautiful Semi-Dwarf Spreading Yew Evergreen shrub Extremely cold hardy Grows in sun or shade Perfect for foundation plantings Lo...
View full detailsIntroduction Perfect Privacy Hedge Boxwood Dense Foliage perfect for concealing unsavory views Common Boxwood Grows 10 to 12 feet tall Leave unpru...
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View full detailsBerckman's Gold Arborvitae add panache to your landscaping, border, or garden areas. A broad, compact, and vertically reaching tree that is both sh...
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View full detailsThe Willow Hybrid Tree is a fast-growing, easy-to-care-for variety that creates an amazing privacy screen! Plant these trees together for your own ...
View full detailsNamed for its buttery-yellow color and enticing aroma, the Julia Child Rose - Shrub Form is the perfect compact rose plant for your yard! Plus, thi...
View full detailsShrubs are synonymous with bushes. Generally they are small to medium perennial woody plants. Shrubs have multiple stems versus trees which usually have a single trunk. These plants can be deciduous or evergreen. There are types of shrubs that flower and those that don’t. Some produce seeds or berries. Bushes that are commonly grown in the landscape for decorative purposes are called ornamental shrubs. These plants vary in color, shape, and size. (We include some herbaceous plants like perennials, tropical plants, and herbs in this collection for ease of use.)
The best time to plant most bushes in just about any climate is early spring. Fall is also a great time to plant shrubs, but cooler climates should plant at least 6 weeks before the ground freezes for best results. In warmer locations avoid summer, but embrace winter planting!
Dig a hole twice the width of the root ball of your plant. Once placed in the hole the root ball should be slightly higher than the soil line. Fill the hole with water, backfill the hole with soil, and tamp the soil down gently with your hands to remove air pockets. Apply 1 to 2 inches of mulch around your plant and water again until the water begins to pool. Water daily for the first week and 2 to 3 times per week for the first 2 to 3 months while your shrub is establishing.
You can trim bushes lightly anytime of the year especially if you are simply removing dead, broken, or diseased branches. Avoid pruning shrubs in mid to late fall because it stimulates new growth which is easily damaged by freezing temperatures. For most shrubs late winter or early spring is a good time for heavy pruning, but be sure to check the best time for your specific shrub. Some flowering shrubs like hydrangeas can bloom on old wood so pruning in winter or spring can remove flower buds. Plants that bloom on old wood should be pruned right after flowering.
Deer will eat almost any plant if it is the only option, especially in areas with heavy deer populations. Even deer resistant shrubs may still be a source of food for a hungry animal, predominantly the tender young growth, and flowers. As far as flowering shrubs, Butterfly Bush (Buddleia) and Barberry have the highest deer resistance ratings, with Viburnum (Snowball Bushes, etc), Abelia, Forsythia, Camellia, Lilac, Beautyberry, and Rose of Sharon Hibiscus following close behind. Boxwood shrubs, Juniper shrubs, Mugo Pine, and most Holly bushes are deer resistant evergreen shrubs. Deer also tend to avoid flowering broadleaf evergreen shrubs, Distylium, Japanese Pieris, and Ligustrum. A bonus is that all of these are low maintenance shrubs.
Shade loving flowering shrubs include Azaleas, Hydrangeas, Snowball Bushes (Viburnum) and Camellias. Boxwoods, Camellias, Azaleas, Distylium, and many Hollies and Junipers are evergreen plants that can grow in part shade. Gold Dust Aucuba, Pieris Mountain Fire, Green Mountain Boxwood, Japanese Plum Yew, and Hicks Yew are evergreen shrubs for full shade.
Wax Myrtles can grow 3 to 5 feet in one year. Nellie Stevens Holly, Oakland Holly, and Wavy Leaf Ligustrum can grow 2 to 3 feet per year. Some varieties of Nandina and Camellia can grow 1 to 2 feet per year. Dwarf shrubs tend to grow slower than standard and large shrubs.
Check out the Blue Pacific Juniper, Blue Star Juniper, Purple Pixie Loropetalum, Nandina Flirt, Dwarf English Boxwood, Soft Touch Holly, and Mr Bowling Ball Arborvitae for dwarf evergreen shrubs. For low growing shrubs, look to Liriope, Dianthus, Drift Roses, and Creeping and groundcover Juniper. There are tons of dwarf flowering shrub options. Some of our favorites are Encore Azaleas, Daruma Loropetalum, Gold Mound Spirea, Fine Wine Weigela, Let’s Dance Hydrangeas, Kleim’s Hardy Gardenia, Kaleidoscope Abelia, and Low and Behold Ice Chip Butterfly Bush. All of these bushes grow to 3 feet or less at maturity! (Some of the Encore Azaleas get a bit bigger, but they have several that stay at 2 to 3 feet tall)
Browse thru the best selections of Shrubs at our online plant nursery including our amazing Evergreen shrubs and Flowering shrubs.