shrubs and bushes for landscaping
Shrubs and Bushes for Landscaping
One needs to plan properly before planting any shrubs and bushes. Here are tips on selecting shrubs which provide privacy and shrubs which produce beautiful looking blooms, and a list of top bushes and shrubs for landscaping.
Shrubs and Bushes to Consider
Sheared Hedges
- Privet - This is one of the best choice of sheared hedges, and is one of the fast growing privacy hedges. There are around 5 kinds of privet shrubs which include Chinese privet shrubs, Amur privet shrubs and the common privets.
- Other Hedges - Other good choices of sheared hedges are Myrtus communis, Pistacia lentiscus, and beautiful blooms producing lilacs.
- Hydrangea - These flowering bushes and shrubs are easy to care for, and have large pompons or flattened clusters of blooms which can be pink, white or blue in color.
- Forsythia - These are among the first plants to bloom in spring. Forsythia gets golden bell-shaped blossoms.
- Rhododendron - Rhododendron comes in wide range of colors, which makes them one of the most popular flowering shrub.
- Buckeye - If you are looking for a low on maintenance shrub which adds great color to your landscape, then buckeye shrubs are a great choice with their showy flowers.
- Viburnum - If you are looking for some ornamental shrubs for screening, then viburnum shrubs are a great choice. They are beautiful and versatile, and easy to grow, and provide colorful fruits.
- Conifers - Conifers come in different shapes and sizes, and make excellent shrubs for screening.
- Agonis flexuosa 'Burgundy' - These are stunning looking plants which add rich color to the landscape.
- Other good choices of landscaping bushes used for screening include myoporum and Anamirta cocculus plants.