List of Flowering Shrubs

Color Schemes For Flowering Shrubs

The landscape of your garden or yard may be an extension of your home, so why not try some exterior decorating? Flowering shrubs can provide the fundamental color base for your landscape as well as other flowering plants you may have such as perennials or annuals.

Flowering Shrub Color Chart, see below.

Using Contrasting Colors
Strong colors spread sparsely among large areas of softer shades are very effective at drawing attention.

Illusions of Space
Using shrubs to create backgrounds of pink, grey, blue and mauves create a misty effect giving a feeling of depth. Use red in the foreground will emphasize this effect. A red flowering climbing rose works perfectly in the foreground.

Color Scheming
Look at the color chart below. By choosing shrubs from only one of the color groups, you will be able to create a dramatic display of flowering shrubs. Selecting shades of blue or a range of oranges for example. But you don't need to stick to just this color, throw in a few purples or pinks into a blue color scheme for instance, and this will greatly enhance the look of your project area.

Which Shrubs to Use?
Once you have chosen your color scheme, you then need to find the correct shrubs to provide the colors for your scheme. We have put together a flowering shrubs color chart to help you get started below. Reed on for some more tips.
Choosing shrubs with longest flowering periods keep your color scheme lasting longer, and save you lots of work too.
Using green foliage shrubs is always useful, no mater which color scheme you have chosen, as the green foliage will enhance the other plants, and can conceal or divert attention where needed.
You don't need to stick with the green foliage shrubs either, as many foliage shrubs are silver, gold or variegated.

List Of Flowering Shrubs Color Chart

Color	Botanical Name	Common Name	Description
Yellow	Lonicera flava Philadelphus caucasicus Forsythia x intermedia	Yellow Honeysuckle Golden Mock Orange Forsythia	Spring Flowering Deciduous Shrub - Full Sun
Orange	Lonicera ciliosa Potentilla fruticosa 'Tangerine' Rhododendron	Orange Honeysuckle Shrubby Cinquefoil 'Tangerine' Rhododendron, Azalea	Zones 3 - 8 Orange Flowering Rhododendrons and Azaleas
Red	Rosa Rhododendron Chaenomeles speciosa Cotinus coggygri 'royal purple' Lonicera maackii	Red Roses Rhododendron, Azalea Red Flowering Quince Smoke Bush Red Rum Honeysuckle	Red Flowering Roses Red Flowering Rhododendrons and Azaleas Zones 5 - 8 Zones 3 - 8
Pink	Spiraea fritschiana 'Pink Parasols' Rosa Lonicera hispidula	Pink Parasols Spirea Pink Roses Pink Honeysuckle	Zones 4 - 10 Pink Flowering Roses
Purple	Syringa vulgaris Aubrieta deltoidea Kolkwitzia amabilis Lonicera conjugialis Buddleja davidii	Purple Common Lilac Lilacbush, Rock Cress Beauty Bush Purpleflower Honeysuckle Purple Butterfly Bush	Zones 3 - 9 Subshrub, ideal for use in rock gardens. Z 4-9 Zones 5 - 9 Zones 5 - 9
Blue	Salvia azurea Caryopteris incana 'Sunshine Blue' Hibiscus syriacus Hydrangea macrophylla	Sage Bluebeard Sunshine Blue Spiraea Rose of Sharon French Hydrangea	Zones 6 - 9 Zones 5 - 9 Zones 6 - 9
Green	Artemesia pontica Cornus alba Euonymus Weigela florida 'variegata'	Roman Wormwood White variegated Dogwood Burning Bush Variegated Weigela	Zones 3 - 8 Zones 4 - 9 Zones 5 - 8
White	Syringa vulgaris alba Buddleja davidii alba Lonicera albiflora Crataegus Rhododendron Hydrangea	White Common Lilac White Butterfly Bush Western White Honeysuckle Hawthorn Rhododendron, Azalea Hydrangea	Zones 3 - 9 Zones 5 - 9 Zones 4 - 9 White Flowering Rhododendrons and Azaleas White Flowering Hydrangea

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