49 Landscaping Small Shrubs For Sun

Hydrangea paniculata is the easiest hydrangea to grow.

Landscaping small shrubs for sun. Plant where you can enjoy the fragrance or as part of a shrub border. The matte silver green foliage has a loose growing habit with a slightly triangular shape. This is one of the hardiest full sun shrubs available with a vigorous growth pattern and mountains of small star shaped sweet scented flowers from early summertime. Forsythia is a great flowering shrub for very early season blooms in sunny locations though it can work in part shade as well. Up to 4 tall and wide. And like all hydrangeas this plant needs very little maintenance to encourage its abundant blooms. At maturity you can expect a height of around 4 metres from this silver leaved beauty.

Beauty is available year round with this small tree. Hardy in zones 2 to 7. Grow this 3 foot tall hydrangea in full to part sun in zones 3 to 9. They ll tolerate some shade. Award winning beauty with burgundy stems and leaves and pale pink button flowers in spring and summer. Hardy down to 40 degrees f flare is a must when it comes to dwarf flowering shrubs for small gardens. Many cultivars such as tardiva can be successfully trained into a standard or miniature tree form perfect for a large container or just about any landscape spot.

Partial shade to full sun. Give this dwarf hydrangea four to six hours of full sun each day and it will bloom its head off every year. With red twig dogwood you can have a plant that you can use as a privacy screen for erosion control or just a border for your flower garden. For many northern gardeners forsythia is the first shrub that blooms each spring almost as soon as the snow melts. The cone shaped flowers are white when they open but they age to bright red pink. Diablo ninebark is a sun loving shrub whose foliage is interesting in spring summer and fall. This dwarf shrub bears abundant white blooms that stay white in any soil.

Why we love it. Prune immediately after flowering. This dogwood is one of the trees bushes and shrubs for partial shade or full sun and does best in hardiness zones two to eight. Useful for small urban gardens mass plantings or a low maintenance landscape. Lilacs come in a variety of shapes and sizes from dwarf types that fit small entry gardens to tall varieties like mount baker and pocahontas pictured which reach 10 to 12 feet tall. These shrubs perform best and open the most flowers in full sun. Viburnums are some of the toughest shrubs out there and these spring bloomers have pretty white to pinkish white blooms with a distinctively spicy scent and attractive reddish fall foliage.