Large Shrubs
Large Shrubs
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![Aesculus parviflora var. serotina, late bottlebrush buckeye, suckering shrub in summer bloom]()
![Buddleia alternifolia, fountain butterfly bush, fragrant lavender bloom on weeping stems]()
![Buddleia cordata ssp. tomentella, Los Lerios butterfly bush, pale-backed felted foliage]()
![Buddleja salviifolia, sage-leaf butterfly bush, pale lavender flower clusters]()
![Callicarpa americana, American beautyberry, whorls of purple berries circling the stem]()
![Callicarpa americana 'Bok Tower', white beautyberry, white fruit ringing the stems]()
![Callicarpa americana 'Welch's Pink', pink beautyberry, saturated pink fall fruit]()
![Callistemon 'Woodlander's Hardy', hardy red bottlebrush, red stamen-brushes on arching evergreen branches]()
![Callistemon pinifolius (pine-leaved bottlebrush), close view of greenish-yellow bottlebrush flower and needle-like leaves.]()
![Callistemon rigidus 'Clemson', red bottlebrush shrub in bloom.]()
![Cephalanthus occidentalis, buttonbush in bloom, white pincushion flowers]()
![Citrus 'Morton', hardy citrange, ripe orange fruit among green foliage.]()
Citrus ‘Morton’ (Citrus sinensis x Poncirus trifoliata) $32.00 /Morton Citrange
- Zones 6–10
- 10–15 ft
![Citrus 'Swingle', Swingle citrumelo, yellow citrus fruit among trifoliate foliage.]()
![Citrus 942 (US-942), hardy trifoliate hybrid, ping-pong-sized orange fruit.]()
About the Large Shrubs Collection
Large shrubs are the big, multi-stemmed woody plants that fill the space between trees and the lower border, mature specimens that can stand head-high and well beyond. Broad, dense, and long-lived, they do the heavy structural work of a planting: blocking a view, softening a boundary, and holding the garden's shape through every season. Where a tree needs decades and a wide footprint, a large shrub delivers much of the same presence in a fraction of the time.
In the landscape they are the workhorses of privacy and structure. A single specimen becomes a focal point; a row makes an informal hedge or screen far handsomer than a fence; a backdrop of them sets off everything planted in front. Many flower, fruit, or turn color as well, so the same plant that screens the neighbors also earns a place on looks alone.
We grow large shrubs because they give so much cover and structure for the space they take, and because a mixed shrub layer is one of the richest habitats a garden can offer. Dense woody growth shelters and feeds nesting birds, and flowering and fruiting shrubs carry pollinators and wildlife through much of the year. A boundary planted in varied shrubs does more for the living garden than any wall.
Give them room to reach full size, so they never need fighting back with the shears, and choose for the site rather than pruning against it. For the tallest framework above them see our Canopy Trees, for evergreen structure our Conifers, and for the layer below our Small & Medium Shrubs.
