Would you like to spend less time maintaining your garden and more time enjoying it?

Flowering shrubs are the workhorses of the garden, offering colour, texture and year-round structure all while requiring little in terms of maintenance.

Shrubs are extremely flexible in the garden design, serving as a focal point, used in mixed borders, mass-planted or for screening or hedging.

Whether planning an entirely new space or refreshing an old one, consider including low-maintenance, xeric shrubs in your garden design for season-long interest.

Creating a beautiful, water-wise garden doesn't mean sacrificing colour. Three exceptional flowering shrubs stand out for their ability to deliver stunning seasonal displays while conserving water: Forsythia, Physocarpus opulifolius (commonly known as Ninebark), and Hibiscus syriacus (Rose of Sharon). These resilient performers offer homeowners the perfect combination of low-maintenance care and high-impact visual appeal.

Forsythia brings explosive early-season colour to xeric landscapes when most other plants are still dormant.

This deciduous shrub produces masses of bright yellow flowers along its bare branches in early spring, creating a dramatic golden fountain effect that signals winter's end.

Once established, Forsythia........

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