Yucca Gloriosa at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. Yucca gloriosa Variegata is a very ornamental, broadleaf evergreen shrub featuring a basal rosette of attractive, rigid, sword-shaped, spine-tipped blue-green leaves. It is topped in mid-summer with spikes of beautiful, large, white, bell-shaped flowers that hummingbirds love.
Yucca Gloriosa at Chapultepec Park
The Terrace Gardens are the historic heart of Duke Gardens. Topped by a wisteria-covered pergola, the Terrace beds are filled each season with marvelous combinations of bulbs, annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses, trees, and shrubs. Container plantings complement the landscape designs.
Mix of Colors
A nice combination of colorful flowers on green shrubs
Color on Green
Hydrangeas, one of the most beloved landscape plants, are revered for their large dramatic blooms that add long-lasting color to the garden in summer and fall. These romantic shrubs come in many white flowering varieties, adding timeless beauty to any yard. The color white complements most other hues, helping to cool down the landscape during the heat of summer.
White Hydrangeas
White Hydrangea Closeup
We end our series on bonsai with Bougainvillea Bonsai.
The Bougainvillea is an evergreen shrub, little tree, or thorny vine with little trumpet-shaped flowers that grow in clusters of three and come with three pretty bright papery bracts, most often magenta or purple colored.
Bougainvillea Bonsai
Privet Bonsai is a great bonsai tree with a big fat trunk. Privet is a genus of deciduous and evergreen shrubs and small trees that are native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa. They are widely cultivated for ornamental purposes and are known for their attractive glossy leaves and small white or creamy white flowers that bloom in the summer.
Privet Bonsai
Procumbens Juniper shrub is native to the southern parts of Japan. Commonly known as the garden juniper, it is a fantastic species for bonsai. In Japan, they are not very common as bonsai as they are thought to be too easy to grow.
Procumbens Juniper Bonsai
The juniper genus is made up of about 50 to 70 different species within the cypress family. They are evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs, which are very popular for Bonsai.
Juniper Tree Bonsai
Disanthus cercidifolius is a medium-sized deciduous shrub growing to 3 m (10 ft) tall and wide. It is noted for its heart-shaped leaves which turn to shades of red, purple and yellow in autumn, but saw them in April at J C Raulston Arboretum.
Leaf Colors Variety
The Banana Split daphne is a winter daphne shrub with variegated leaves and fragrant flowers. The plant has dark green leaves with wide yellow margins, and pink flower buds that open into white, creamy flowers with a sweet, citrusy scent. Banana Split daphnes can grow to be 3–4 feet tall and wide, and bloom in late winter to early spring.
Daphne -Banana Split
Crown of Thorns, or Christ Thorn, is a deciduous, herbaceous, perennial shrub with bright green leaves and greenish flowers. The flowers are enclosed within long-lasting and bright bracts of red or yellow. The plant is loose in form, spiny and irregularly shaped, with thick, black spines and its historic presence in the Middle East led to the belief by some that the stems of this plant had been used in Christ’s crown of thorns, hence the common name.
Leucospermum ‘Scarlet Ribbon’ (Nodding Pincushion) – A dense compact shrub produces an abundance of 4 inch wide pincushion flowers. The multi-colored flower heads start a salmon pink color and then open to expose the orange-yellow perianth styles and shiny red tepals that look like ribbons. Captured in Santa Monica, California.
Blooming in spring and summer, the Hydrangea is considered a shrub. But despite their ability to be rather large showstoppers in your yard, how to grow hydrangeas isn’t a question even the novice gardener will need to ask – these beauties all but grow themselves. Reaching up to 15 feet in height, the hydrangea grows quickly and often fills in a space in just one summer. Captured these flowers in Hickory, North Carolina.
Lantana are fragrant natives of tropical regions in the Americas and Africa. These broadleaf evergreen shrubs are drought-hardy in landscapes and cold-hardy to slightly below freezing, so they can be grown as perennials in Florida and other warm regions. Found these flowers in Santa Monica, California.
Rhododendron calendulaceum, commonly known as flame azalea, is an upright, loosely branched deciduous shrub. It is native primarily to woodland slopes and mountain balds in the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Here are some images from Roan Mountain Bald in North Carolina/Tennessee.
A temporary resting place on the shrub for the spent Jacaranda blossoms
Jacaranda Blossoms on a Shrub