How Do You Landscape With Small Flowering Shrubs?
While large growing shrubs can serve a valuable purpose in a landscape, small growing shrubs are excellent for use as accents, low hedges, and edging. Small flowering shrubs can add color and life to just about any yard, and when carefully placed in a landscape design, will provide years of beauty. Plant very small flowering shrubs, such as Caryopteris ‘First Choice’, or Spirea ‘Golden Princess’, to create a soft hedge along walkways or drives, or to enclose garden areas. The University of Minnesota Extension notes that small ornamental shrubs like these add structure and definition, without the harshness of a brick, stone or plastic edging material. Choose flowering shrubs that are short in stature for use as accents in garden areas. According to The Perennial Gardener’s Design Primer, flowering shrubs work well to add shapes and interest to your garden that perennial flowering plants may not be able to do. If you use a shrub that blooms at a time when your perennial plants are not in
