Add whimsical beauty to your landscape when spring arrives with these flowering trees and shrubs.
To create acharming landscapein your own yard, consider planting a variety of these stunning flowering trees and shrubs.
Its tiny but numerous rosy pink flowers line the branches before heart-shaped leaves appear.
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The magnificent flowering tree also bears cone-like fruit in the fall.
Its eye-catching early-spring blooms can be a snowy white or soft pink.
Like the Eastern redbud, dogwood trees transform beautifully during autumn.
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Itsleaves turn reddish-purple in the fallwhen it also produces small, glossy red fruits.
Its blooms emerge before the plant leafs out, making thisbeautiful shrubappear to glow in the spring sunshine.
Azaleas have funnel-shaped blossoms, while rhododendrons have trumpet-shaped flowers.
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Azaleas also have small leaves and profuse flowers scattered over the entire shrub.
Don’t forget todeadhead each cluster of flowersafter the blooms fade.
Use clean pruners or pinch off the flowers with your fingers.
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Deadheading not only keeps the shrub looking good, it may encourage additional blooms.
In spring, they’re covered withfragrant white, pink, or red flowers.
Come fall, flowering crabapples produce tiny yellow, orange, or red fruit.
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Look fornewer varietiesof flowering crabapples that are disease-resistant and hold their fruit into the winter.
The fantastically fragrant bloomsattract hummingbirdsand butterflies in late spring, making your landscaping a whimsical sight to behold.
While most types of viburnum have green foliage, some boast white or yellow variegation or veining.
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With confetti-like blossoms and a mildly fragrant scent, flowering cherries are a delight for the senses during spring.
you’ve got the option to even use it in a hedge with a bit of pruning.
ensure it’s at least six weeks before the first frost date in your area.
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Flowering trees should be pruned after the flowers have dropped.
For most trees, this means pruning in late winter or early spring, before new growth starts.
Maple and oak trees are the most popular trees in the country.
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The oak tree is considered the national tree of the United States and is commonly found in most states.
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