How To Choose The Right Garden Shrubs With Or Without Flowers For All Garden Landscaping Situations
Make your decisions here then go to the nursery or garden centre of your choice and pick the ideal shrub for that perfect garden or patio location. No more guessing about size, colour of flowers, flowering time or best place to plant in the garden. You'll also be able to discover if the plants are evergreen or deciduous, hardy plants or tender plants needing special gardening care in winter.
If you're like most of us you know basically what kind of shrubs you want for your garden but the choice of shrubs is so huge that you are overwhelmed.
For example ... you want a shrub, do you recognize any of these questions you ask yourself?
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Not more than 6 feet high ... that's when the shrub is fully grown
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Leaves all year round ... in other words the shrub must be evergreen
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You want to choose from shrubs that have white flowers in Spring
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Your garden does not have much shade so the list of shrubs to choose from must grow in full sun
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Your garden has normal soil conditions ... no more special acid conditioning or lime addition required
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Some of the shrubs will be used for screening the neighbor's washing line
How do you find the right shrubs when faced with these requirements? And even if you find one how do you know it is ideal for your situation.
How this site will help you
This site of almost 600 different shrubs will help you discover the ideal shrub for your own individual garden situation. Each shrub is described as follows ... here's an example. each page on the website has an identical structure to this
EXAMPLE .... Wild
Gentian Shrub ... This shrub has a pink flower with a red berry
1. Name ...Wild Gentian 2. ...Chironia Baccifera 3. Colour ...Pink with red Berry 4. Flower Time ...Summer flowering shrub 5. Ideal Use ...Growing plants under trees can be difficult because of shade problems and competition for moisture from the tree's roots themselves. This shrub is a good candidate for planting under trees 6. Leaves ...Garden shrubs like this classed as an evergreen shrub. This means the shrub will keep its leaves (normally green) in winter season irrespective of the climate being hot, cold or mild. The most classic example of an evergreen is the fir tree 7. Frost Reaction ...The shrub is considered hardy but this is a relative term and the degree of hardiness depends upon severity of climate. Seek specific advice if you live in a severe winter area 8. Size ...When fully grown this shrub will reach a height of about 1 feet and spread over an area of about 2 feet 9. Soil ...Acidic soil or soil with pH less than 7.0 is preferred for this shrub to thrive best. Peat can be used to correct soils which are not acidic 10. Pruning Advice ...If you want to prune this shrub confine your efforts to pinching the tips from the growth experienced 11. Comments ...The shrub described here is perfect for a rock garden or rockery
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The easy way to find what you want ....
Even going through a site like this can be daunting so I have created two ways to provide the information you want ...
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A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet covering every single shrub on this website. You can use the spreadsheet to search or rearrange all fields into whatever order you want. In other words you can sort or search for ALL shrubs with yellow flowers and evergreen leaves and flower in summer as an example.
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A complete directory created in pdf format with all the shrubs arranged by colour. You can see an example page from the shrubs directory ... just click the link
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Gardening ideas for Joy Flowers for Fun Beautiful Plants ... a new gardening site
Shrubs grown for their foliage Shrubs grown for their foliage and leaf effects. Leaves create sound in the wind and what can beat those autumn of fall colours of deciduous trees and shrubs.
Shrubs arranged by colour of flower ... Orange Shrubs arranged by colour of flower ... Orange flowers are quite common in the gardening environement.
Shrubs arranged by colour of flower ... Pink Shrubs arranged by colour of flower ... pink flowering shrubs. Very common and very pleasing colour ranges and hues. More pink shrubs
Shrubs arranged by colour red flowers How to choose red flowering garden plants and shrubs. More red shrubs .
Shrubs arranged by colour of flower ... Blue Lilac Mauve Purple Blue Lilac Mauve Purple Practical Gardening Shrubs.
Shrubs arranged with variegated foliage Shrubs arranged with variegated foliage. This type of plant is used for backdrops and effect.
Shrubs arranged by colour of flower white Shrubs and plants with white flowers
Shrubs with berries Shrubs with berries or fruit. Displays of berries are often seen on winter shrubs.
Shrubs arranged by colour of flowers yellow Yellow flowering shrubs and plants for the garden. Very good common colour that attracts butterflies.
For a list of different coloured annuals see this page. Planted between shrubs annual make superb displays of colour quickly and easily.
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