Scotch Broom – Sister Redhead (Cytisus scoparius)
Description This very unusual shrub features tiny green leaves on wiry green stems for a unique textural effect in the garden. True red, pea-shaped flowers cover the plant in spring. ...
Deciduous Shrubs, Proven Winners (Deciduous Shrubs), Shrubs
Sweet Box – Sweet & Lo (Sarcococca hookeriana)
Description Sweet & Lo Sweet Box is a small evergreen shrub, producing shiny foliage and two-toned hot pink and white, jasmine-like fragrant flowers in early spring. With it’s attractive evergreen ...
Deciduous Shrubs, Proven Winners (Deciduous Shrubs), Shrubs
Rose of Sharon – Pollypetite (Hibiscus Syriacus)
Description A delightfully unusual and beautiful dwarf Rose of Sharon. The ball-shaped shrub has large, rounded, pure lavender-purple flowers with soft ruffled edges and no center eye. Grows 3-4′ tall ...
Deciduous Shrubs, Proven Winners (Deciduous Shrubs), Shrubs
Sweetspire – Fizzy Mizzy (Itea)
Description A compact growing shrub, producing unusual upright shooting, white, early summer flowers. Grows in a neat and tidy habit to around 2-3 ft. tall and wide. Sun or shade. ...
Deciduous Shrubs, Proven Winners (Deciduous Shrubs), Shrubs
Viburnum – Brandywine (Viburnum)
Description Brandywine is an excellent, multi-season flowering shrub, producing showy white flowers in late spring. The best features are the fall pink and blue berries and shiny dark green foliage ...
Deciduous Shrubs, Proven Winners (Deciduous Shrubs), Shrubs
Viburnum – Glitters & Glows Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum)
Description The high-gloss shine of the foliage on this compact viburnum will really catch your eye. So will the late spring white flower clusters and showy blue fall berries. A ...
Sumac – Tiger Eyes Cutleaf (Rhus typhina ‘Laciniata’)
Description The new growth on this form of Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac is chartreuse green, quickly changing to yellow. Outstanding yellow, orange and scarlet foliage color in autumn. Grows 6 to ...
Viburnum – Shasta (Viburnum pl. tom. ‘Shasta’)
Description A large deciduous shrub, with excellent white flowers in spring. The 4-6″ diameter white flowers line the horizontal branches of this specimen plant, followed by bright red fruits that ...
Deciduous Shrubs, Proven Winners (Deciduous Shrubs), Shrubs
Lilac (Reblooming) – Bloomerang Dark Purple (Syringa hybrid)
Description This exciting dwarf Lilac has highly fragrant lavender-purple blooms, beginning in late spring, and continues to rebloom through summer and into fall. Compact habit, growing to only 5 ft. ...
Nandina – Firepower (Nandina domestica ‘Firepower’)
Description Completely die back to the ground in severe winters and partially die back in milder winters. Will grow to 2′ tall and wide. Pinkish white flowers in May-June, reddish ...