Native Shrubs: A Season of Color!
Flowers and Color from April to October in Part Shade.
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!
cranberry viburnum carolina allspice fothergilla fothergilla red chokeberry red chokeberry
April
American Cranberrybush (Viburnum opulus var. americana)
Carolina Allspice (Calycanthus floridus)
Dwarf Fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii)
Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia)
american cranberrybush elderberry flame azalea oakleaf hydrangea pinxterbloom azalea smooth witherod
May
American Cranberrybush (Viburnum opulus var. americana)
Elderberry (Sambuca nigra ssp. canadensis)
Florida flame azalea (Rhododendron austrinum)
Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
Pinxterbloom azalea (Rhododendron periclymenoides)
Smooth witherod (Viburnum nudum)
oakleaf hydrangea smooth witherod smooth witherod wild hydrangea wild hydrangea 'Annabelle' wild hydrangea
June
Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
Smooth witherod (Viburnum nudum)
Wild hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)
Wild hydrangea 'Annabelle' (Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle')
oakleaf hydrangea smooth witherod summer sweet summer sweet summer sweet wild hydrangea "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')
summer sweet wild hydrangea wild hydrangea 'Annabelle'
August
Summer sweet clethra (Clethra alnifolia)
Wild hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)
Wild hydrangea 'Annabelle' (Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle')
winterberry red chokeberry beautyberry
September
Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)
Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia)
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
winterberry fothergilla oakleaf hydrangea beautyberry smooth witherod smooth witherod
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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