What are some common flowering shrubs
An article about common flowering shrubs and related knowledge of ornamental flowers suitable for indoor cultivation is introduced as follows:
In modern landscape engineering, the application of flowering shrubs is becoming more and more widespread. Flowering shrubs come in many varieties, with stable garden effects. Their diverse leaves, flowers, fruits, and stems can be admired all year round, making them indispensable elements in garden plant configuration. They can provide a rich and continuous background for the overall environment, and flowering shrubs are receiving increasing attention and use. In garden planting, full consideration must be given to their adaptability and future growth space. Most species require regular pruning and control of plant shape to maintain their good posture and growth.
Here are some flowering shrubs that have good application effects in various garden projects:
Snowflower
Snowflower belongs to the Rosaceae family and the Sorbus属. Its flowers are dense and snow-white when blooming, hence the name. It is also called "snow willow" because its leaves resemble willow leaves and its flowers are as white as snow. With its graceful posture, willow-like leaves, and snowy flowers, it is widely used in gardens, whether planted alone by the water, in clusters as a flower hedge, trimmed into a ball shape for planting in lawn corners, or combined with artificial mountains and stones, complementing each other and making it a unique sight in the early spring garden. It can also be used as a cut flower.
Peachleaf willow
Peachleaf willow is a perennial deciduous shrub of the Saxifragaceae family and the Philadelphus属, commonly found in northern mountains. Its branches and leaves are dense, with creamy yellow and fragrant flowers that gather in clusters, quite beautiful. The flowering period is from April to June, and the fruiting period is from August to October. It is suitable for planting in clusters at forest edges, corners of garden paths, and in front of buildings, and can also be used as a natural flower hedge or as the central planting material in large flower beds. In classical gardens, it is especially elegant when dotted around artificial mountains and stones.
Four-seasons锦带
Four-seasons锦带 has a cylindrical shape, with some branches bending to the ground, and a flowering period from April to June. The锦带花 has dense branches and leaves, bright flowers, and a flowering period that can last for more than two months. It is one of the main early spring flowering shrubs in the North China region. It is suitable for planting in courtyard corners, lakeside groups; it can also be used as a flower hedge or planted in clusters on the edge of forests; and it can be dotted on artificial mountains and slopes. The market supply of锦带花 includes young seedlings and ball-shaped seedlings, which are needed by many greening projects.
Ulmus leaf plum
The Ulmus leaf plum is named because its leaves resemble those of the Ulmus tree and its flowers resemble plum blossoms. It has strong resistance to salt and alkali and is suitable for planting in park lawns, roadsides, corners of courtyards, and near ponds. If planted around evergreen trees or on artificial mountains, its visual effect is even better, providing good visual ornamental value. When planted with other flowering plants, the flowers are extremely beautiful during the spring and autumn blooming seasons, with various colors competing for beauty, creating a pleasant scene, and making it an excellent plant for garden greening.
Red ruby海棠
The red ruby海棠 is widely used and can be applied to greening flower beds, roads, parks, residential areas, courtyard, and street绿化 with high ornamental value and outstanding greening effects. Moreover, it is easy to prune and shape, often planted by the courtyard gate or on both sides of pavilions and corridors, and is also used as a material for grasslands and artificial mountains, lake stones, making it the best urban excellent colored greening species.
Golden edge Daphne
Golden edge Daphne is a variety of Daphne odora, a small evergreen shrub of the Thymelaeaceae family, with light yellow leaf edges and green centers. It is a traditional famous Chinese flower and a world-famous flower. Golden edge Daphne is known for its "color, fragrance, posture, and rhythm" and has left behind the saying "Peony flowers have national color and fragrance, Daphne flowers have golden edges as the best." Golden edge Daphne leaves not only have beautiful golden edges but also bloom with bright purple-red flowers and a strong fragrance, making it very popular. It grows relatively slowly, with a small plant size, and can even be maintained as a potted plant.
Golden edge Sambucus
Golden edge Sambucus has lush branches and leaves, with new leaves always a bright golden yellow during the growing season, making it a rare colored leaf species in garden greening. The plant is 1.5-2.5 meters tall, with new leaves golden yellow and old leaves green, flowers in terminal corymbs, white and creamy white. The berries are drupes, red, and fruit from June to August. It blooms white flowers in early summer and bears red fruit in early autumn, suitable for planting by the water, forest edges, and lawn edges, and can be potted or used for ornamental borders.
Golden edge Physocarpus
Golden edge Physocarpus is a natural variety of hairless Physocarpus and is an excellent colored leaf flowering shrub introduced to enrich the levels and colors of greening. Its leaves, flowers, and fruits are all ornamental. The golden yellow and bright green form a sharp contrast, effectively increasing the layering and brightness of green plants. In urban greening, it can be planted alone, in clusters, or in strips, suitable for courtyard viewing, as road hedges, inlaid materials, and as a backdrop for strip flower beds, or as a flower path or edging.
Flowering pomegranate
Flowering pomegranate combines the ornamental value of flowers and fruits. Its plant is about 3 to 4 meters tall, with many branches and a full plant. It blooms in May every year, with large flowers and bright red flowers, red flowers with green leaves, very eye-catching in green belts. Flowering pomegranate is planted in many parts of the country, with the market supply of young seedlings, single-stem seedlings, and cluster seedlings, and the overall market price trend is relatively stable.
Spiraea
Spiraea is a Rosaceae plant, with a plant height of only 1-2 meters, dense branches, a large crown, flowers in paniculate inflorescences, and common colors of white and pink, with a flowering period in summer. Spiraea is widely planted in northern China, with strong adaptability and resistance, and good flowering effects, making it an ideal flower hedge plant.
Redtwig dogwood
Redtwig dogwood is the same as ordinary flowering shrubs during the growing season, with white flowers in summer, blooming like a little girl. Redtwig dogwood is also a unique ornamental branch greening plant, with red branches, especially eye-catching after the leaves fall in winter. It is very cold-resistant and widely planted in the Northeast. The market demand for this type of seedling is increasing year by year, and the market situation is improving.
Little leaf privet
Little leaf privet flowers from April to July and fruits from September to October. It prefers sunlight, is slightly shade-tolerant, and more cold-tolerant; it has good resistance to sulfur dioxide and chlorine gases. The species is strong, easy to prune, and has strong sprouting power. Little leaf privet is mainly used for green hedge planting; its branches and leaves are dense and round, often planted in courtyards for ornamental purposes, and is an important green hedge material in garden greening, and can also be used as a rootstock for osmanthus and syringa. In addition to its high ornamental value, little leaf privet also has good medicinal value.
Chinese silver grass
Chinese silver grass has white flowers, with thin and soft petals, like tassels, and full of white flowers during the full bloom period. Chinese silver grass combines native, ornamental, longevity, resistance, and food sources, making it a versatile species that meets the current market demand for greening, so its application is increasing, and the market demand is also increasing, with a limited supply of high-quality seedlings and a significant price increase.
Dense branching red leaf cherry is a type of colored leaf tree, with deep red leaves, forming a beautiful color band when planted in large areas, suitable for background use, or for creating landscapes. Dense branching red leaf cherry has strong branching ability, a compact plant shape, and is both ornamental in leaves and flowers. It is very popular in the north and the current market trend is rising.
Tianmu cherry
Tianmu cherry is suitable for planting in cold areas, with dense and large flowers, a flowering period from June to July, a fruiting period from August to September, red fruit, winter persistent, and highly ornamental, making it an excellent ornamental plant for both flowers and fruits.
It has strong cold resistance, developed roots, and easy transplantation survival; it has no strict soil requirements and can grow in slightly acidic and neutral soils, making it an excellent ornamental tree species in northern gardens. It is suitable for road, park shrubbery, wall side, and building front greening.
Large flower Hydrangea
Large flower Hydrangea is a variety of Hydrangea macrophylla. The tree is 2-3 meters tall, with a crown diameter of about 3 meters, an upright shape, dark green leaves, large paniculate inflorescences on the branch tips, fragrant, initially white flowers, and due to the presence of anthocyanins in the petals, sensitive to air pH, the flowers can turn pink-green, pink, or yellow. The flowering period is from July to October, and the fruiting period is in October.
It prefers light but can tolerate shade, and can grow normally under sparse forests. It is cultivated in Dandong, Dalian, Beijing, Shenyang, Changchun,哈尔滨, and Hohhot. It has strong adaptability and can be used for courtyard, park, square, street greening, planted alone, in clusters, in rows, or in large areas, and is also good for potting and as cut flowers.
Purple beauty
Purple beauty is a deciduous shrub of the Verbena family and the Callicarpa属, about 2 meters tall, flowering from June to July and fruiting from August to November. It is distributed in Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan. In the northern region, it can be planted in sunny and sheltered areas.
Purple beauty has a graceful shape, colorful flowers, and bright fruit colors, round and lustrous, like purple pearls, making it an excellent flower species that can be ornamental both in flowers and fruits, commonly used in garden greening or courtyard planting, and can also be potted for ornamental purposes. Its fruit spikes can also be cut for bottle arrangements, making it an expensive cut flower material.
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