These low-maintenance shrubs bloom during the hottest months of the year.
Enjoy flowers all summer long when you add a few low-maintenance, easy-growing blooming shrubs.
Bluebeard
Airy clusters of beautiful blue blooms givebluebeardits name.
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The flowers appear in late summer, just when many other shrubs and perennials are fading.
This shrub is easy to grow and will take all but the worst heat and drought.
In addition, all kinds of pollinators, including hummingbirds, love the flowersbut deer leave it alone.
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Bluebeardmakes a great cut flower, too.
This also will prevent them from self-seeding everywhere, especially inregions where they are invasive.
It’s also a tough, low-care plantnative to areas of North America.
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And spirea produces clusters of raspberry-rose flowers in late spring into early summer.
‘Little Princess’, shown here, is a compact variety that gets about 2.5 feet tall.
It’s not picky about soil and can tolerate drought well.
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Its blooms start opening in late spring and continue through autumn,drawing numerous pollinators, like butterflies.
Thisensures lots of bloomsthroughout the summer.
Becauseit tolerates droughtso well, this shrub is easy to grow in warm climates.
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‘Sugar Tip’ (shown here) also offers pretty variegated foliage with its double pink blooms.
Shrub Rose
Not all roses arefinicky, high-maintenance plants.
Modernshrub rosesflower all summer long and into autumn on disease resistant, easy to grow plants.
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The fluffy-looking blooms also have a wonderful fragrance.
Add to these attributes the summersweet’s golden leaf colors in fall, and you have an ideal shrub.
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