Spring Flowering Bushes

Spring is the time, when your garden should be filled with blooming flowers and the air should be mildly scented with these flowers. To enjoy colorful blooms in the spring, you have to plant spring-flowering bushes. There are many varieties of spring-flowering shrubs and bushes that you can choose from, depending upon the climate you live in and the type of soil available in your garden. You can choose different colored spring flowering bushes and shrubs in the same variety such as rose or azaleas or opt for a one color theme, by planting spring-flowering bushes in a single color. For landscaping purpose, planting only yellow flowering bushes or purple flowering bushes can look quite stunning.

Spring Flowering Shrubs and Bushes

One of the most popular early spring-flowering bushes is the camellia. The camellia flower looks like a rose, but is smaller in size and comes in many eye-catching shades of pink, red, yellow and even a delicate white. To grow camellias in your garden, you need soil which is moist, acidic and well-drained. The camellia flowering bushes grow up to a height of 15 feet and are generally around 8 to 10 feet in width. The camellia flowers grow profusely, and pruning of the branches is necessary once the flowers start to bloom.

Although there are many varieties of camellia plants, the most popular is the Japanese camellia. A very beautiful spring-flowering bush that has a profusion of blooms is the mountain laurel. It is a species of flowering plant that belongs to the blueberry family and is mostly found in the eastern part of United States. This flowering plant grows up to 3 to 9 meters in length and has big clusters of pin, red or white flowers that bloom in late spring. Late spring-flowering bushes like mountain laurels grows best in well-drained and acidic soil and although the flowers of the mountain laurel is quite beautiful, all parts of this bush is poisonous.

No other flower heralds the arrival of spring like lilacs. Lilacs flowering bushes are not very hard to grow and they can grown by even the amateur garden. This is one of the most fragrant spring-flowering bushes and there are many varieties of lilac bushes like "Angel White", "Dark Night", "Anabel" and "Descanso Princess". Lilacs comes in colors like lavender, pale yellow, white, pink, burgundy, light purple or lilac. These beautiful spring-flowering bushes grow up to a height of 10 feet and requires well-drained soil along with plenty of sunlight to grow. If you want to grow white spring-flowering bushes that has a profusion of exquisite blooms, then two must have flowering plants are mock orange and star magnolia. Mock oranges are so named because their flowers look similar to oranges and they even smell like a mix of orange and jasmines. The mock orange flowers are pure white in color with four petals. The bushes grow to a height of 10 feet and they need well-drained soil with full sun for the best growth. The star magnolia is one of the most beautiful white flowering bushes and native to Japan. It has stunning white colored flowers that blooms in early spring. It grows to a height of 15 feet and the leaves and flowers of this plant is highly fragrant.

This was all about spring-flowering bushes, shrubs and trees. There are many different types of spring flowers suitable for planting in a garden. Some other spring-flowering bushes and shrubs are rhododendron, peonies, viburnum, weigela, witch hazel trees, white and yellow forsythia bush, ninebark, oregon grapeholly, flowering quince, jasmine and red twig dogwood trees. All these spring-flowering bushes will look great in your garden when they bloom in the spring.