What flowering shrub can take full sun?
What are your favorite flowering shrubs (not roses) that can handle full sun? Gaura, yarrow, salvia, profusion zinnia, autumn sedum, russian sage. Moon flower! More heat the bigger it gets. Popular choices include photinia ‘red robin’, camellia, skimmia, pittosporum, hebe, choisya, and box (buxus) — all reliable, low-maintenance shrubs that offer lasting texture and colour.
What is the most beautiful evergreen flowering shrub?
Any list of the best evergreen shrubs would be incomplete without gorgeous lavender. With scented silver-green foliage and lovely flowers in shades of purple, lilac and pink, this well-loved hardy shrub is attractive, versatile, deeply fragrant and acts as a magnet for bees and other pollinators. Evergreen flowering perennials will keep their green foliage all year, long after the blooming season is over. Many herbs are particularly known for being great practical flowering plants with evergreen foliage, such as Lavender, Rosemary, and Salvia, among others.
What is the longest lasting flowering shrub?
Butterfly bush have one of the longest bloom times of all garden plants: they seem to never be without flowers from early summer through autumn. This makes them perhaps better called “continuous bloomers” over rebloomers, since they don’t really take a break like other plants on this list do. Geranium. Probably one of the longest flowering garden plants, hardy geraniums start flowering around May, and continue to October, depending on the variety. One of the longest flowering varieties is Geranium ‘Johnson’s blue’ (illustrated) which is also attractive to bees.