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Camellia japonica 'Doctor King'
Flowers like rhubarb and custard
- Upright and bushy habit
- Medium shrub - grows up to 4m
- Rosy semi-double blooms, evergreen foliage
- Suitable for container growing
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£11Sale price £6Small Leaved Lime Hedging | Tilia cordata
Tall & tough screening hedge
- Heart-shaped leaves and scented flowers
- Makes an excellent windbreak
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 25m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
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Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bouquet Rose'
Your new favourite cut flower
- Bushy shrub with arching flower stems
- Medium shrub - grows up to 1.25m
- Domed pink-to-purple flowers
- First grown over a century ago
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Hydrangea macrophylla 'Little Blue'
Brilliant blue patio blooms
- Compact, densely-packed shrub
- Small shrub - grows up to 0.75m
- Myriad baby-blue flower spheres in summer
- Perfect for patio pots
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£7Sale price From £4Common Box Hedging | Buxus sempervirens
The UK's most versatile hedge
- Dense evergreen foliage with small flowers
- Ideal for topiary or formal hedging
- Slow growth rate - up to 10cm per year
- Grows up to 5m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
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Patio Hibiscus Tree | Hibiscus syriacus 'Magenta Chiffon'®
A gently ruffled rock star
- Refined, bushy patio tree
- Small tree - grows up to 1.5m
- Wonderful frilled flowers
- Provides colour well into autumn
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£7Sale price From £4Golden Privet Hedging | Ligustrum ovalifolium 'Aureum'
Bright, classy and bee-friendly
- Variegated foliage and masses of white blooms
- Formal hedging loved by pollinators
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 4m or keep trimmed at 1-4m
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£8Sale price £4Japanese Meadowsweet Hedging | Spiraea japonica 'Froebelii'
Repeat flowering all summer long
- Clusters of tiny, deep pink flowers
- Loved by bees
- Fast growth rate - 40-60cm per year
- Grows up to 2m or keep trimmed at 1-2m
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'Royal Parfuma®' Scented Hybrid Tea Rose
One of the best roses for scent
- Dark red roses with a violet flush
- Fabulous fragrance with honey and myrrh notes
- Repeat flowering: June to September
- Hardy and disease resistant
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Patio Hibiscus Tree | Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Chiffon'®
Silky flowers as elegant as any
- Graceful, compact patio tree
- Small tree - grows up to 1.5m
- Lovely blue blooms marked red at the centre
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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Patio Californian Lilac Tree | Ceanothus 'Victoria'
Looking beautiful in baby blue
- Stylish, upright patio tree
- Small tree - grows up to 1.5m (when pruned)
- Evergreen foliage, blue thimble flowers
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
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£6Sale price £4Common Alder Hedging | Alnus glutinosa
Hardy wildlife magnet
- Dense foliage, long catkins and cones
- Supports over 90 wildlife species
- Fast growth rate - over 60cm per year
- Grows up to 5m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
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Patio Lilac Tree | Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'
Wake up and smell the... Lilac!
- Perfectly-proportioned, upright patio tree
- Small tree - grows up to 1.5m (when pruned)
- Stunning, fragrant pink blooms
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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Hydrangea macrophylla 'Little White'
Snowballs on the terrace
- Sturdy and compact dwarf shrub
- Small shrub - grows up to 0.75m
- Abundant white, snowball-like blooms
- Particularly free-flowering
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Hydrangea macrophylla 'Little Pink'
Small in stature, big on impact!
- Dwarf shrub with bushy growth
- Small shrub - grows up to 0.75m
- Hot pink flower domes and lush foliage
- Ideal for container growing
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'Silver Anniversaryâ„¢' Hybrid Tea Rose
A prize-winning celebration rose
- Bright, fully double white roses
- Lightly fragranced
- Repeat flowering: July to October
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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'Ruby Wedding' Hybrid Tea Rose
Gorgeous anniversary gift
- Ruby red double blooms
- Light, sweet fragrance
- Repeat flowering: June to September
- Disease resistant
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Goat Willow Hedging | Salix caprea
Bring the wildlife flocking
- Fluffy catkins and bright green foliage
- Great natural screening - grows anywhere
- Average growth rate - 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 8m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
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Patio Photinia Tree | Photinia 'Little Red Robin'
A small tree with *big* intensity
- Fabulous, upright patio tree
- Small tree - grows up to 1.5m (when pruned)
- Incredible crimson-red foliage
- Evergreen for year-round interest
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'Ingrid Bergmanâ„¢' Hybrid Tea Rose | Bouquet Rose
A touch of Hollywood glamour
- Deep red double roses
- Spicy fragrance
- Repeat flowering: June to October
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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'Odelia Renaissance®' Shrub Rose
Sunset tones with a heady scent
- Clusters of bright, full orange-red roses
- Heady, classic rose fragrance
- Repeat flowering: May to October
- Hardy and versatile
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Camellia japonica 'Princess Baciocchi'
Abundant, intensely pink jewels
- Upright and bushy habit
- Medium shrub - grows up to 8m
- Deep pink double blooms, evergreen foliage
- Very easy to care for
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£7Sale price £4Grey Alder Hedging | Alnus incana
Super hardy screening
- Spring catkins and autumn cones
- Great for screening in wet and windy spots
- Fast growth rate - over 60cm per year
- Grows up to 8m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
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'Eye of the Tiger' Bee Friendly Floribunda Rose
Bees aim for the bullseye
- Single yellow blooms with a deep pink centre
- Lightly scented
- Repeat flowering: June to October
- Gold Standard award winner
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Hydrangea macrophylla 'Libelle'
One of the loveliest lacecaps!
- Dense, charmingly bushy shrub
- Medium shrub - grows up to 2m
- Flat lacy sprays in snow white and blue/pink
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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'My Valentine' Hybrid Tea Rose
The gift that actually lasts!
- Rich crimson red double roses
- Subtly scented
- Repeat flowering: May to October
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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Hydrangea paniculata 'Vanille Fraise'
Fluffy ice-cream blooms!
- Delightfully bushy shrub
- Medium shrub - grows up to 2.5m
- Pyramidal panicles turn from cream to pink
- Great for cut flower gardens
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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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