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£7Sale price £4Deutzia scabra Hedging
Frangrant flowers for bees
- Honey-scented white blooms and peeling bark
- Excellent pest and disease resistance
- Slow growth rate - 10-15cm per year
- Grows up to 3m or keep trimmed at 1-3m
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£7Sale price £4Corkscrew Willow Hedging | Salix matsudana 'Tortuosa'
Unique ornamental beauty
- Wavy leaves on corkscrew-shaped stems
- Use young shoots in flower arrangements
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 8m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
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£5Sale price From £3Field Maple Hedging | Acer campestre
The only UK native maple
- Luscious leaves and bee-loved flowers
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Fast growth rate - 30-60cm per year
- Grows up to 8m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
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£7Sale price £4Purple Japanese Barberry Hedging | Berberis thunbergii 'Atropurpurea'
Vibrant and hardy shrub
- Purple leaves, spring flowers & berries
- Great for wildlife and coastal spots
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 2m or keep trimmed at 1-2m
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Hydrangea paniculata 'Little Spooky'
Scared? Of these blooms?
- Robust and diminutive dwarf shrub
- Small shrub - grows up to 0.75m
- Conical, chartreuse-flushed white flowers
- Lovely autumn shades!
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Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight'
Award-winning scene stealer
- Upright and airy shrub
- Medium shrub - grows up to 2m
- Rounded cones of green, white and pink blooms
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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£4Sale price £3White Japanese Rose Hedging | Rosa rugosa 'Alba'
Long flowering beauty
- Large white, single roses all summer
- The biggest hips of any wild rose
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 2m or keep trimmed at 1-2m
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£5Sale price £3Field Rose Hedging | Rosa arvensis
Stunning native rambler
- Creamy white single roses in summer
- Ideal in a relaxed, country-style mixed hedge
- Fast growth rate - 40-60cm per year
- Grows up to 3m or keep trimmed at 1-3m
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£4Sale price From £3Sweet Cherry Hedging | Prunus avium
Bird-friendly native classic
- Clusters of flowers and red berries
- Great for pollinators and feeding birds
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 5m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
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'Jasmina' Climbing Rose
Lilac-pink climbing rose
- Abundant lilac-pink cup shaped roses
- Strong fruity fragrance with notes of pear
- Repeat flowering: May to October
- Suitable for partial shade
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£5Sale price £3'King Edward VII' Red Flowering Currant Hedging | Ribes sanguineum
The crowning glory of spring
- Deep pink flowers and edible fruits
- Great for windy and coastal spots
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 3m or keep trimmed at 1-3m
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£7Sale price £4Shrubby Cinquefoil Hedging | Potentilla fruticosa
Unkillable flowering hedge
- Masses of sunny yellow flowers
- Incredibly resilient
- Slow growth rate - 10-20cm per year
- Grows up to 1.5m
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£7Sale price £4Van Houtte's Spiraea Hedging | Spiraea vanhouttei
Hardy and bee-friendly
- Dense clusters of white flowers
- Low maintenance, vigorous and bushy
- Fast growth rate - 30-60cm per year
- Grows up to 2m or keep trimmed at 1-2m
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£5Sale price £3Red-Leaved Rose Hedging | Rosa glauca
Award winning star-shaped blooms
- Light pink roses & cherry-like edible hips
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Fast growth rate - 40-60cm per year
- Grows up to 2m or keep trimmed at 1-2m
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St John's Wort | Hypericum 'Hidcote'
Utterly glorious yellow blooms!
- Lush evergreen leaves, radiant yellow blooms
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 1.2m
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£7Sale price £4Salt Cedar Hedging | Tamarix tetrandra
Vibrant and unusual
- Plumes of light pink, coral-like flowers
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 4m or keep trimmed at 1-4m
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Patio Choisya Tree | Choisya 'White Dazzler'®
Sumptuous scents from the patio
- Showy, lollipop-like patio tree
- Small tree - grows up to 1.5m
- Gloriously fragrant white flowers
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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Wayfarer Hedging | Viburnum lantana
Attractive and informal
- Large pompom white flowers & berries
- Attracts butterflies and birds
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 5m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
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Camellia japonica 'Nuccio's Pearl'
A spectrum of pink hues
- Upright and bushy habit
- Medium shrub - grows up to 4m
- Gradated pink double blooms, evergreen leaves
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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£5Sale price £4Golden Elder Hedging | Sambucus nigra 'Aurea'
Make your own elderberry wine
- Golden leaves, creamy blooms & purple berries
- Attractive to birds and insects
- Fast growth rate - 30-60cm per year
- Grows up to 4m or keep trimmed at 1-4m
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Camellia japonica 'William Bartlett'
Brilliant paint-flecked blooms
- Upright and bushy habit
- Small shrub - grows up to 3m
- Marbled pink double blooms, evergreen foliage
- Distinctive colour patterning
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Camellia japonica 'Brushfield's Yellow'
Glorious anemone-like flowers
- Upright and bushy habit
- Medium shrub - grows up to 4m
- Butter yellow blooms, evergreen foliage
- Exceptional colour contrast
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£7Sale price From £4Yellow Stemmed Dogwood Hedging | Cornus stolonifera 'Flaviramea'
A dose of winter sunshine
- Lemon yellow stems & creamy white flowers
- All year round interest
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 3m or keep trimmed at 1-3m
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'Clair Renaissance®' Shrub Rose
An old romantic
- Ruffled apricot flowers
- Classic Old Rose fragrance
- Repeat flowering: May to October
- Thrives in a sunny border
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£5Sale price £3Scotch Rose Hedging | Rosa pimpinellifolia
Fragrance with bite
- Heavily scented pink & white flowers
- An attractive prickly barrier
- Fast growth rate - 40-60cm per year
- Grows up to 3m or keep trimmed at 1-3m
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Hydrangea macrophylla 'Expression'
Talk about flower power...
- A relatively compact, bushy shrub
- Medium shrub - grows up to 1.5m
- Incredible double pink blooms
- Easy to grow and fully hardy
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£30Sale price £26Hydrangea arborescens 'Pink Annabelle'
Billowing pink blooms
- Dense, bushy and vigorous shrub
- Medium shrub - grows up to 1.5m
- Pastel pink, pompom-like blooms
- Makes a fantastic flowering hedge
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Roots' Cotswolds Valley Nursery
Meet Alice
Putting shrubs in the starlight (and boy do they shine…)
From tending Shakespeare’s gardens to nurturing citrus plants in National Trust orangeries, Alice has a wealth of knowledge and experience working at some of the very finest spaces. With a team of dedicated growers on hand to help, Alice utilises our industry-leading nursery (and the lovely, fertile conditions of the Cotswolds) to grow shrubs that aren’t just good-looking, they’re good-growing too.
Need help picking?
Which flowering shrub should you choose?
Want some more beautiful blooms for your garden? Want something chunkier than a perennial but not so large as a sprawling tree? Flowering shrubs hold the answer. But which should you choose? Well, there’s plenty to choose from! For early spring blooms, look to forsythia and its sunny yellow flowers. Camellias, too, herald the arrival of springtime, dazzling with a variety of different flower forms. Later in the year, lilacs announce themselves to the world with their pretty purple flowers and sumptuous fragrance. As summer rolls around, hydrangeas come to the fore, along with buddleias, both offering fabulously showy flowers. Late summer into autumn brings abelias, while you can even get some flowers in winter, thanks to winter jasmine.
Planting schemes featuring flowering shrubs
Various planting schemes utilise flowering shrubs, including Japanese gardens, cottage gardens, Mediterranean gardens and woodland gardens. Camellias and magnolias are often found in Japanese gardens, rose bushes are a staple of the traditional English cottage garden, while lavender plants, which can be grown into a wonderful flowering hedge, are a mainstay of Mediterranean gardens. If you’re wanting to create a natural, woodland-style garden, then turn your trowel to rhododendrons and azaleas.
Caring for flowering shrubs
Flowering shrubs are generally nice and easy to look after. Most will need regular watering for the first couple of growing seasons until they’re established. Once established, however, watering is only desperately needed during hot, dry spells. Pruning requirements will vary from shrub to shrub, so make sure to check out the growing guide for the plant you’re thinking of choosing. Be sure, too, to check your plant’s spacing requirements. If you’ve only got a small garden, then opting for something vigorous like Japanese quince probably isn’t the smartest idea. Feed in spring with slow-release, general fertiliser and apply a layer of mulch to help retain moisture.
Flowering Shrubs FAQs
What is the easiest flowering shrub to grow?
Most flowering shrubs are nice and easy to grow, but if we were pushed to pick just one, we’d opt for the spectacular forsythia. Also known as golden bells, this jolly shrub tolerates most soils and conditions, requires little in the way of maintenance and delivers fabulous early spring colour to kickstart your garden back into life post-winter.
Are there any winter-flowering shrubs?
Yes, there are winter-flowering shrubs. Our two choices are the shrubby winter honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) and sweet box (Sarcococca confusa); both are highly fragrant and produce their beautiful blooms between December and March. What’s not to like?
Which shrubs flower in summer?
There are plenty of summer-flowering shrubs to choose from, including hydrangeas, , St. John’s wort, ceanothus, escallonia, shrub roses, abelia, hibiscus and potentilla to name just a few. Is September too late to plant shrubs?
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