Azaleas light up the landscape with their colorful trumpet-shaped blooms in spring. Encore azaleas also bloom through summer and fall. They thrive in part shade with well-drained acidic soil.
American beautyberry's clusters of bright purple berries in fall make this shrub spectacular. It grows in full sun to part shade in moist soil, reaching up to six feet tall and wide.
Beautybush produces delicate pink blooms in late spring, followed by capsule-like fruits. It's deer-resistant and drought-tolerant, growing in full sun with well-drained soil.
Also known as blue-mist spirea, bluebeard has powder-puff flowers in blue, pink, or purple. It attracts butterflies and grows in full sun with well-drained soil.
Deutzia steals the show in early spring with its white or pink blooms on cascading stems. It grows in full sun to part shade with well-drained soil.
These shrubs produce crepe-papery flowers in a variety of colors. They have a long bloom period and thrive in full sun with well-drained soil.
This slow-growing shrub has fragrant white blooms in spring and fiery fall foliage. It grows in full sun to part shade with well-drained acidic soil.
With flowers the size of dinner plates, hardy hibiscus makes a striking hedge. It blooms in shades of red, white, salmon, or pink and grows in full sun with well-drained soil.