Beautiful bushes, blossoming all summer, besides well tolerating winter colds - these are the most popular plants among gardeners, which please the eye and do not require much care.
What winter hardy decorative shrubs bloom all summer long?
Flowering shrubs decide on our sites several tasks at the same time: they decorate it, divide space into zones or protect the garden with a live fence. To unpretentious shrubs, blossoming all summer, it is possible to carry the following:
- The Buddha . It looks like a lilac. Its flowers can have several shades: lavender with pink, white with purple and just white. Budleia blossoms until frost. Since the bush grows very high - up to 3 meters in height, it should periodically be cut off, which, however, does not greatly affect the active growth upwards. Therefore, it is necessary to plant it on a site where it is not supposed to grow stunted plants. Pruning buddlei for the most part is needed to remove dried flowers and the growth of new brushes. Blossom bush from July to October, but much depends on climate and weather.
- Cattail . A low shrub that adorns curbs and mixborders. Very bright and winter-hardy perennial shrub that blooms all summer (from May to frosts). At the same time it is completely unpretentious to soil, lighting and air temperature. There are different colors of the bush, but they all invariably make it a bright spot in the garden.
- Calicant . Shrub with very unusual flowers resembling the shape of a water lily. A beautiful, hardy, rare North American shrub. The flower has a lot of petals, very fragrant.
- Bush rose . There are many varieties that vary in size of the bushes, their shape, the color of the inflorescences. They can either bloom all summer, or bloom repeatedly.
- The incense . In form, its flowers resemble poppies or non-mosquito roses. Their petals are thin and short-lived - each flower lives no more than 1 day, but thanks to constantly renewed buds, the bush is covered with blossoms all summer long. The plant likes good lighting and warmth, but loamy soil does not tolerate. With the correct spring pruning forms a rounded bush.
- Cletra is olcholinate . An unpretentious plant, well coexists on the edge of the ravine or near the pond, because it loves moist soil. Rapidly spreads over free territory. Flowers appear exclusively on young shoots, because every year you need to thoroughly cut it. Blossoms almost all summer, and in autumn it is decorated with bright leaves.
- Jasmine (Chubushnik) . A beautiful bush, blooming for a long time and appreciated for its delicate aroma. Jasmine is also attractive because its flowers can be collected after flowering, dried and brewed as a tea. For cool regions it is preferable to choose jasmine varieties "Snowstorm" or "Pearl", which are known for their winter hardiness, although they require shelter for the winter.
- Japanese quince .
A beautiful winter-hardy bush with bright red flowers resembling garnet flowers. It starts blossoming from spring and blooms until August. Does not require special care, with age becomes more cold-resistant. Very elegant and colorful plant, standing out against the backdrop of the garden greenery and decorating the site. - Spirea (in the common people - the bride). Very beautiful decorative and winter hardy bush for summer cottages. The blossom can from May to October. In this case, small flowers of lilac or white are collected in heavy clusters, which look very rich. There are several varieties of plants: flowering only in the summer months and those that blossom only in the fall and blossom until the first frost.