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Native Shrubs: A Season of Color!

Flowers and Color from April to October in Part Shade.

native carolina allspice bloom
Carolina Allspice

Flowering shrubs add lots of color with blooms, berries and fall hues. If you want to add layers to your garden, the middle layer between perennials and trees, might as well add beauty! Here are suggestions by month for blooming native shrubs in part shade. Your bloom time and duration of bloom may differ based on light and moisture conditions as well as geography. The staying power of berries on shrubs in fall is different every year in our garden depending on what the birds are doing. Please use this as a rough guide!

April

American Cranberrybush (Viburnum opulus var. americana)

Carolina Allspice (Calycanthus floridus)

Dwarf Fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii)

Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia)


May

American Cranberrybush (Viburnum opulus var. americana)

Florida flame azalea (Rhododendron austrinum)

Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)

Pinxterbloom azalea (Rhododendron periclymenoides)

Smooth witherod (Viburnum nudum)


June

Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)

Smooth witherod (Viburnum nudum)

Wild hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)

Wild hydrangea 'Annabelle' (Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle')


July

Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)

Smooth witherod (Viburnum nudum)

Summer sweet clethra (Clethra alnifolia)

Wild hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)

Wild hydrangea 'Annabelle' (Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle')


August

Summer sweet clethra (Clethra alnifolia)

Wild hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)

Wild hydrangea 'Annabelle' (Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle')


September

Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)

Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia)

Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)


October

Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)

Dwarf Fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii)

Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)

Smooth witherod (Viburnum nudum)

Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)


Do you have other showy shrub suggestions? Please share them below!



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