Proper formation and combination of different plants play an important role in shaping the landscape of the garden plot. Properly selected flowering shrubs for the garden will please the eye and decorate it from spring to late autumn. With the help of shrubs, you can diversify the garden landscape, divide the territory and add new accents to it. When choosing a plant, its height, duration of flowering and the characteristics of shrub planting should be taken into account. Demand for gardeners are shrubs that bloom in spring, as they decorate the site with their flowering, while other plants are just awakening.
Much when choosing shrubs depends not only on the preferences of the gardener, but also on the characteristics of the soil, climate and plants that are already growing on the site.
Japanese quince (henomeles)
Japanese quince refers to the undersized flowering shrubs. This heat-loving plant feels good in regions with a mild climate, but can tolerate frosts down to -30 ° C. Japanese quince ornamental shrubs are used for lawns and borders.
Did you know? Especially often you can find stunted creeping species that are bred specifically for rockeries and alpine hills. There are also hybrid forms for growing bonsai.
Japan and China are considered to be the birthplace of quince. The height of the plant is about 1 meter, light-requiring and not demanding to the soil. Shoots and branches in most hybrid varieties with prickles, but you can find a quince and with bare branches. The root system is powerful, with a long taproot, which allows it to tolerate drought normally. Shrub light-requiring, so it is better to plant in well-lit areas. Flowers up to 5 cm in diameter, placed along the length of the entire shoot, petals tightly pressed arcs to a friend. The Japanese quince blooms in May-June, the flowering period is 30 days. During this period, the shrubs have a beautiful decorative appearance and become the main dyeing of the garden plot.Fruit quince begins 3-4 year. The fruits ripen in September-October, have a pear shape, but more often they look like apples of green or orange color.
Buddleya
Buddley grows in tropical latitudes of Asia, South Africa and America. Although she likes a warm temperate climate, she can withstand temperatures down to -20 ° C. In winter, the above-ground part of the shoots frost out, but the following year new shoots grow up to 1.5 m in length. The branches are green, thin, ribbed. Foliage oval, dark green color, up to 25 cm long. 
The flowers may be purple, white, purple, depending on the type of buddley. In the care of the bush unpretentious. In dry days, it must be watered and fed during the flowering period. Before winter, sagging foliage and shoots should be cut, the soil should be covered with peat and dry leaves. Buddleya propagated by seed or cuttings.
Weigela
Weigela is a shrub from the family of Honeysuckle. In our country, weigela is found early, pleasant, and Middendorf. Shrubs bloom twice a year: from May to mid-June and from late August to early October. During flowering, weigela is abundantly covered with flowers. She likes sunny areas or small penumbra. 
Important! The flowers and leaves of the weigela can be damaged by the wind, so it is best to plant the shrub in protected places.Shrub care is simple. Frost-prone shoots should be cut off, watered on dry days and fertilized during flowering. Choose a loose and fruitful soil for planting.
Heather
Common heather can often be found in garden plots. This is a small shrub with narrow tetrahedral leaves. It grows up to 1 meter in height. Heather has many varieties that differ in the color of leaves and flowers. Flowers goblet-shaped clustered in racemes. Heather blooms in July and August and pleases the eye with lush flowers until late autumn, so it is considered a shrub that blooms in the fall. 
He loves sour soil, sun and partial shade. It should be abundant watering when heather blooms. In the northern regions, where the winters are frosty, it needs to be watered abundantly before the soil freezes and shelter for the winter. It will be good if you carry out mulching with leaves crushed with bark, sawdust or needles.
Propagated shrub air layings. To do this, before cutting, choose the longest branch and bend it to the ground, securing it with a pin. After a few months, the young heather is carefully dug and transplanted to the selected location.
Convolvulus
Widely used in landscape design bindweed. This is a perennial shrub with long shoots (can reach 2 meters). Shoots creep or curl, creating a flowering canopy. The flowers resemble a bell and are arranged on not long stem from the axils of leaves of 1-3 pieces. The color of flowers from snow-white to pale pink, blue, lilac, depending on the species of bindweed. 
The shrub almost does not require care and tolerates drought and frost normally. But if you provide him with watering and make feeding, you can achieve lush flowering throughout the summer period.
Did you know? Bindweeds require maintaining a distance to the plants in the neighborhood of 20-25 cm, and between the bushes themselves there should be 40-60 cm intended for filling the soil.Bindweeds breed only with the help of seeds. Before planting, they should be germinated and planted already prepared seedlings.
Hibiscus
Hibiscus belongs to the Malvaceae family. It is also known as the Chinese rose.
Despite the abundance of hibiscus species, all have common features. The leaves of the shrub stalked, notched. Flowers - large, simple or terry, are blue, yellow, crimson, dark red, lilac, purple and purple. There are flowers with a border around the edge. Fruits in the form of a five-fold box with seeds. 
To hibiscus normally feel, you need to regularly loosen the soil, remove weeds and thin out heavily thickened bushes. From June to autumn, twice a month you should feed. Shrubs propagated by layering, grafting, cuttings or seeds.
Hydrangea
Hortensia - a beautiful ornamental shrub or a small tree with large bright inflorescences. Belongs to the family Hortensia and has about 70 - 80 species. 
Leaves are oval, large. The color range is diverse: white, cream, pink, dark purple, blue and red. Inflorescences have the shape of an umbrella, panicle or ball. Fruits in the form of a box in which there are small seeds. The shrub hydrangea reaches 3 meters in height and has a round shape. Shrub care is simple. It requires watering with soft warm water, autumn feeding, preparation for frost.
Jasmine (Chubushnik)
Garden jasmine, or chubushnik often found in urban parks and gardens. Many gardeners use it as a hedge. Shrub with small leaves, thin stems and small white flowers. Garden jasmine - light-loving plant. In the shade, the flowers will be small, and the branches will begin to stretch. Fruits - small boxes with small shifts. Chubushnik differs in frost resistance and tolerates drought normally. Jasmine blooms from late May to August. 
Bloodroot
Silverweed is a low shrub up to 1.5 m in height. Potentilla flowers of various shades: pink, white, cream, orange and yellow. The flowers are collected in thyroid-paniculate inflorescences that adorn the plant from May to September. All kinds of Potentilla love well lit places. The soil is suitable loose, nutritious, slightly acid. Sour soil is preferred only by the Arctic. 
Camellia
Camellia genus includes up to 80 species, which include evergreen shrubs and trees. Shrub leaves are a separate decoration. They are oval-shaped, pointed, fused at the base. Camellia blooms 2-3 years after planting. Flowers of various shades. Each flower does not fade for about a month. On this amazing shrub flowers appear at the ends of the shoots. Camellia is a very demanding shrub, therefore, in order to grow it on the plot, you will need considerable experience and knowledge in the field of agricultural engineering and cultivation of this crop. 
The shrub is propagated by cuttings for which shoots of the current year are selected.
Magnolia
Magnolia - evergreen or deciduous ornamental shrub. It is often planted singly or in whole alleys. Flowers shrub large, fragrant, white or cream, single-ended. Petals are located in 2-4 laps. The fruits are a pineal leaflet with small seeds of black and triangular shape.
Did you know? Magnolia flowers pollinate beetles because they bloom before bees and butterflies appear. Although there is no nectar in the flowers, they attract with their delicate sweet aroma.Magnolia likes abundant and regular watering, as well as drained soil.
Lilac
Lilac is a genus of shrubs of the Maslin family. The leaves of the lilac are opposite, mostly whole, but can also be pin-separated, falling over the winter. Flowers, depending on the species, white, purple or pink, gathered in panicles, which end the branches. The calyx of the flower is small and short, bell-shaped in the form of four cloves. A corolla with a long cylindrical tube (more rarely, in Amur lilac - with a shortened tube) and a flat four-part bend. The fruit is a dry bivalve box. 
There are a lot of lilac species, but common lilac is especially common. It is very hardy and resistant to diseases and pests.
Spirea
Spiraea belongs to the Rosy family. Spirea bloom begins in early May. The flowers are small, with long filaments of stamens, thanks to which they become fluffy. Collected flowers in the inflorescences pyramidal, thyroid or cone-shaped. Color depends on the variety and can vary from white to pink. 
During flowering, the shrub becomes like a tender cloud thanks to a multitude of inflorescences, and the branches take on a spectacular hanging shape. For the growth of ornamental shrubs fit loose fertile soil, a well-lit place without stagnation of water and feeding three times a day.
Rhododendron
Rhododendron - one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs, which can be found in gardens and parks. Deciduous or evergreen - in the spring they are completely buried in flowers and delight the eye with leafy greens. 
The leaves are varied in size and shape, sessile or with petioles, alternate, entire, less often serrate, pubescent, etc. Flowers with large, slightly irregular corolla of pink, yellow or purple-violet color are collected in the brush or inflorescence of the glandular form. The fruits are a five-fold box with seeds.
Rhododendron can be grown on almost any site. It is unpretentious and easy to maintain. It should be watered 2-3 times a week, in dry and hot weather, spray the leaves. But it is worth remembering that it is impossible to loosen the soil around the shrub, because the roots are close to the surface.
Forsythia
Forcisia belongs to the family Olives, blooms in early spring with bright yellow flowers. Forsythia bush up to three meters high. The bark has a rough texture and a gray-brown hue. The leaves are simple, although in some species, and ternate. Flowers in the form of bells bright yellow. The bush blooms in early spring and blooms for up to three weeks. The fruit is a box with winged seeds.
Important! For planting forsythia you need to choose a well-lit place with limestone soil. It is best to plant it near the conifers, where it will be beautifully stand out against their background.
Forsythia are planted in city streets, squares and gardens. It blooms one of the first and notifies everyone about the arrival of spring. In autumn, the green leaves of forsythia turn golden or purple-violet, and it again attracts attention with its bright motley flame. The shrub is easy to clean and durable.It is best to plant shrubs on the site depending on the climatic conditions, the type of soil and the desired flowering period. If you pay due attention to the care of plants, they will delight you with the whole period of flowering with beautiful and fragrant flowers that will decorate your garden.
