Landscaping Small Shrubs For Sun

These shrubs perform best and open the most flowers in full sun.

Landscaping small shrubs for sun. 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. Plant where you can enjoy the fragrance or as part of a shrub border. The matte silver green foliage has a loose growing habit with a slightly triangular shape. Beauty is available year round with this small tree. During the spring and early summer it sports dark purple foliage which contrasts well next to brighter plants. Up to 4 tall and wide. Useful for small urban gardens mass plantings or a low maintenance landscape.

Award winning beauty with burgundy stems and leaves and pale pink button flowers in spring and summer. Why we love it. At maturity you can expect a height of around 4 metres from this silver leaved beauty. 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. Diablo ninebark is a sun loving shrub whose foliage is interesting in spring summer and fall. This dwarf shrub bears abundant white blooms that stay white in any soil. They ll tolerate some shade.

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. 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. Forsythia is a great flowering shrub for very early season blooms in sunny locations though it can work in part shade as well. And like all hydrangeas this plant needs very little maintenance to encourage its abundant blooms. 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. Hydrangea paniculata is the easiest hydrangea to grow. In late summer and autumn this rugged shrub produces fluffy clusters of white flowers that fade to shades of pink and green.

Grow this 3 foot tall hydrangea in full to part sun in zones 3 to 9. The cone shaped flowers are white when they open but they age to bright red pink. Partial shade to full sun. The foliage tends to get greener as the weather heats up. Hardy down to 40 degrees f flare is a must when it comes to dwarf flowering shrubs for small gardens. Give this dwarf hydrangea four to six hours of full sun each day and it will bloom its head off every year. Prune immediately after flowering.