Small Shrubs That Stay Green All Year

Help your landscape flow from late winter to fallwithout a lapse in color by choosing a variety of flowering shrubs with different bloom times including azalea hydrangea buckeye rose and more. Boxwoods are truly a classic evergreen shrub that has been a favorite of American gardeners for hundreds of years.

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Dress up winter scenes with the deep green leaves and bright red berries of Castle Spire holly Ilex x meserveae.

Small shrubs that stay green all year. Boxwood wintergreen grows 3 to 4 feet high with dark green leaves that hold their bold color all year. Plants grow 6 to 10 feet tall. It will start to grow again the next spring.

The best part about boxwoods is they are deer-resistant. One of the more common perennials rhododendron can survive the summer months and the wintertime with no water or fertilizer at all. Try it as mass planting or a low hedge or a tropical alternative to Japa.

Ninebarks have beautiful wine-colored foliage and small clusters of pink flowers in late spring. Some of the leaves will turn red and the flower heads will drop off as the plant re-grows and re-starts growing all over again the next year. The dark green leaves of boxwoods add permanence to the garden and can be kept trimmed into hedges and privacy screens.

Wintergreen can adapt to a variety of light exposures including shade. This holly has a narrow shape 3-4 feet that works great as part of a foundation planting or hedge. Some varieties are green or greenish-gold.

Selections are generally organized by bloom time from early spring to late winter. Beautiful flowers decorative seedpods unusual slender foliage and a weeping. Hardy in Zones 5-7.

Few plants rival boxwood shrubs for winter color. But they keep their beautiful color all season making them a nice contrast against the shades of green in your garden. Common boxwood is one of the largest varieties of this shrub and grows 15 to 20 feet high and spreads 15 to 20 feet wide.

Make sure to get a dwarf variety such as Tiny Wine which tops out at 5 feet. Fast-growing compact shrub with vibrant year-round foliage colour.

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