Bushes With Flowers All Summer

For flowers all summer try the creeping campanulas like campanula portenschlagiana and campanula poscharskyana. Sometimes called summer lilac this sturdy flowering shrub withstands drought blooms all season long and attracts pollinators.

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Bushes with flowers all summer

To prolong blooming deadhead flowers either individually or through shearing. Hydrangeas are one of the best summer shrubs if only for the range of flowers amongst them. Although speedwell is drought tolerant it needs moderate watering for optimal blooming.

Native to northeast asia plantain lilies hostas bloom all summer and are extremely shade tolerant. Like the cleome hassleriana cosmos bipinnatus is easy to grow from seed and often self sows. Shrubs generally have a shorter flowering period than many of the herbaceous perennials.

The species form has clusters of white flowers but cultivars are available that offer flowers in many colors. Happily butterfly bushes offer a longer bloom season than lilacs. Yarrow plants were widely used medicinally prior to modern times to staunch the flow of blood.

There are the classic mophead hydrangea macrophylla cultivars with big blowsy balls of blooms. So out of the many thousands of shrub. Below you ll find even more spring bloomers.

Speedwell is a clump forming plant with flowering stalks that are medium height. If you re looking for a spring flowering shrub a lilac or rhododendron is an excellent choice. The flowers bloom blue in late spring to early summer and last for months rather than weeks.

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