Useful Shrubs Gardening Information

MEDIUM-SIZED SHRUBS

TREE PEONY

Cup-shaped, dark crimson flowers, each with a leafy bract beneath it, are borne on long stalks in early summer, above bold, deeply cut, bright green leaves.

MOCK ORANGE

Striking, white-margined leaves are the main attraction of this dense, bushy shrub. Its richly fragrant flower clusters, in late spring and early summer, are a bonus.

PIERIS

This compact evergreen shrub has narrow, leathery leaves, which are bronze when young. Drooping tassels of white flowers appear in late winter and early spring.

VIBURNUM

Elegant, spreading, layered branches carry neat, pleated leaves and, in early summer, lace-cap flower heads that are white when they emerge, and mature to pink.

'Onondaga' Viburnum sargentii

The maple-like foliage of this vigorous shrub are bronze when young, and color richly in autumn. Its beautiful spring lace- cap flowers are white, but pink in bud.

`Superba' Syringa pubescens subsp. microphylla

Slender-stemmed and spreading, with pointed leaves, this lilac produces fragrant pink flower heads, darker in bud, from late spring right through to early autumn.