22+ Front Garden Border Shrubs

Unlike fences shrubs take time to grow allowing you to ease into defining your space. From classic garden staples like rhododendron to more unique options like spirea you re sure to find the right flowering shrub for your landscape.

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Front garden border shrubs

We know not everyone has the time or talents to maintain a flourishing flower bed year round from evergreens to winter garden ideas and everything in between these plants give your. So when you re planning your garden consider these plants for forming borders either in a bed or along a path. 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.

In this front garden idea a mixture of annual and perennial flowers such as hydrangeas and petunias are used for a pop of color while a few evergreen bushes ensure year round greenery. Discover 14 flowering shrubs that will bring season long color to your garden. A great foliage border gives a garden a rich layered look that doesn t depend on flowers for dramatic effect.

The spreading habit of blue star is the perfect choice for the front of a border. 7 plants to use for borders january 22 2018. Plant where you can enjoy the fragrance or as part of a shrub border.

Others have flowers or berries. Low lying shrubs offer a wealth of different looks for your garden from low and fine leaved to medium height and spiky. Some of these do really well in containers too.

Perfect for rock gardens alongside paved areas the front of raised perennial gardens or as a ground cover on a slope moss phlox forms a dense creeping mat up to 6 inches high and 2 feet wide. Some shrubs are strictly green. It stays low only 16 inches tall grows very slowly and stands out in a crowd.

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