These Elegant Flowering Shrubs Are Available In Unique Tree Forms

With spring around the corner it is time to start planning our gardens. It’s always a good idea to think about the prep your landscape needs as well as mapping out which plants will make good additions to your garden, and where they will go before planting in the spring.

While classic flowering shrubs like roses, gardenias and hydrangeas are the perfect flowering addition to the scenery during warmer months you can place a unique spin on your garden by planting them in tree form.

Instead of having a flowering shrub low to the ground, you will have an explosive ball of foliage and flowers sitting atop of a single trunk. Your yard will put your neighbor’s garden to shame with the distinct beauty of flowering shrubs in tree form.

Top Flowering Trees

Double Knockout Rose Trees

Double Knockout Roses are the tough, disease resistant variety that pumps out large, vibrant roses until the first frost. When on standard, or in tree form, their beauty doubles, as the rounded foliage shines like a beacon above a bare trunk.

Most Double Knockout Roses have blooms until Thanksgiving, or later depending on how cold it gets in your area. These rose trees are recommended for growing zones 5 through 10, but if you are located in a colder growing zone place your rose tree in a container and bring it indoors during the winter. Once temperatures start to warm up, place your potted tree out on the porch or patio and watch it erupt with spring blooms.

Double Knockout Roses in both shrub and tree form bust the myth that roses are tough to grow. This low maintenance variety is self-pruning, and has a higher resistant to pests, disease, and fungi than other types of roses. They don’t need any babying, and can flourish on their own with a little water.

As an added bonus, Double Knockout Rose Trees come in a variety of colors. Add pink, red, white or yellow Double Knockout Rose Trees to your garden for bursts of lively color.

Gardenia Trees

What is summer time without the rich aroma of gardenias drifting through the landscape? Fragrant Gardenia blossoms make the air even sweeter and often awaken memories of summers past.

Don’t spend the warmer days longing for the perfumed blooms from your past, bring them to the present with a unique Gardenia Tree. The large, pure white blossoms pop against the classic dark and glossy green leaves while sitting atop a wooden trunk for an eye-catching display of contrasting colors.

The Gardenia Tree blossoms have double petals, meaning they’re larger and have more pure white petals surrounding a yellow core than the common gardenias most people are used to seeing. Therefore, Gardenia Trees are often more attractive than shrubs.

Gardenia Trees are recommended for growing zones 7 through 9 and thrive when planted in the ground or in containers. Their large blossoms will sweeten the air in your yard, and in your home if kept as an indoor tree.

By being placed near a sunny window indoors, or an area that gets 4 to 6 hours of sunlight a day outdoors and with a little water your Gardenia tree will take off. It’s a low maintenance, fuss free gardenia variety that doesn’t require any babying.

The Limelight Hydrangea Tree

By rising off the ground on a wooden trunk to greet guests with a mass of lush green foliage and large clusters of bright blooms the Limelight Hydrangea Tree is unforgettable.

By being planted around your entryways, kept in containers to frame your porch or to be kept as indoor ornamental trees, Limelight Hydrangeas draw attention and brighten any space.

Their white softball sized bloom clusters dazzle onlookers with their floral display that pops against a backdrop of green foliage. The blooms and branches can be clipped and placed in vases to be preserved as centerpieces or as the perfect decoration in any room.

Hydrangeas have a sweet floral scent and iconic flowers that let people know the best days of the warm summer have arrived. Placing the blooms in vases is often a 4th of July tradition, but with the Limelight Hydrangea tree you’ll have blooms for months, starting in the spring and lasting long into the summer.

With the ability to thrive in growing zones 3 through 8, ice and snow pose no threat to Limelight Hydrangea trees. They proudly stand up to snow storms if planted in the ground, but also thrive in containers and can be kept inside.

Plant low maintenance Limelight Hydrangea Trees for a hands free flowering plant that requires little attention in order to provide months of enchanting blossoms.

Don’t let spring sneak up on you.

Before we know it our yards will defrost and vibrant flowers will be opening in our landscape. Don’t let the spring season pass you by! It’s never too early to start planning your spring landscape, in order to find the perfect unique and beautiful flowering plants to set your yard ahead of the pack.

As a gardener and plant enthusiast I’ve loved growing trees and shrubs my entire life. Unknown to most, there are always new faster fruiting and double blooming plant hybrids emerging on the scene. I often feel the need to share my plant knowledge and new trends with the growing gardening community through my blog!

Originally published at www.fast-growing-trees.com on February 10, 2016.