Usually when a person think of fall colors, trees comes to many people's mind, like the beautiful leaves on a sugar maple, but there are many shrubs that have very beautiful leaves on them. Shrubs not only have beautiful leaves, they also have fruits and berries on some of the shrubs.
Shrubs have many advantages over trees. Most of the shrubs will cost less money than trees. Shrubs mature more quickly and they provide good color the first fall after they are planted. Some good reasons to have shrubs in your yard are they do double duty by providing barriers, screens, ground covers or spring flowers.
All the shrubs that I will be talking about in this article are easy-maintenance plants. They also offer great fall color and they are for all over the country. There may be many other shrubs that would be available in your area that I want be talking about in this article. Always talk to your negibos or garden centers where you are living in.
Cranberry bush has red autumn fruit. In the spring it has flat, lacy clusters of white flowers. In fall their leaves range from yellow to red-purple. It is hardy to 50 degrees F. and this shrub reaches up to 15 feet high and wide.
Cranberry cottoneaster is a low wide-spreading shrub that reaches up to three feet high and three to six feet wide. It has dark, glossy green foliage in the summer and it turns to red or purple in fall. These shrubs has bright red berries, and they usually fast for several months. This shrub is hardy to 30 degree F.
Dwarf fothergilla is grown mainly for its intense yellow and orange-red fall foliage. In the spring, its bears clusters of honey-scented white flowers. This shrub prefer acid soil and it is hardy to -30 degrees F.
Witch hazel grows very high and very wide something like 15 feet. The winter flowers range from yellow to orange to red. Some of the fall foliage will be a single color or a mixture of red, yellow, and orange on the same plant.
Rugosa roses are very hardy shrub roses that has prickly stems that will grow as high as 3 to 8 feet. This shrub also provides fragrant 3 to 4 inches blossoms and their colors are pink, white, and purplish red. In the fall, you will have bright red tomato-shaped fruit, about one inch or more across. It is real hardy to the degree of -50 degrees F.
Winterberry has crops of bright red fruit that ripen in fall and can last all winter. It is hardy to -30 degrees F.
Firethorns has large, dense clusters of pea-size fruits range from red to orange to yellow, depending on which type of shrubs you get.
Fragrant sumac has attractive three inch glossy green leaves that release a fragrance when you touched or crushed. It is hardy to -40 degrees F.
Heavenly bamboo has white flowers in midsummer and in the fall this shrub has orange-red pea-shaped fruit. It is hardy to 0 degrees F.
Summer sweet grows 10 feet tall. In the summer this shrub has white flowers on the branch tips. The 2 to 4 inches leaves turn yellow to golden in the fall. This shrub is -40 degrees hardy.
Burning bush has red fall foliage. The plant grows 15 to 20 feet wide and high. It is -30 degrees F hardy.
Japanese maples has delicate deeply cut leaves that grows 2 to 4 inch long. They are hardy to -20 degrees F. This spring growth is red, the summer leaves are soft green and the fall foliage is scarlet.
Oak leaf hydrangea has large, showy, cone-shaped clusters of white flowers in early summer and in the fall this shrub has eight inch oak like leaves that are either crisom or bronze. It is hardy to -20 degrees F.
Purple beaautyberry has clusters of 1/8 inch fruits in an unusual lilac violet color. In cold winter areas, these shrubs may freeze to the ground, but do not worry, it will come back from the roots. It is hardy to -20 degrees F.
Japanese barberry has small rounded leaves that turns yellow, orange, and red in fall. It is hardy to -30 degrees F.
Red choke berry grows up to six to eight feet high. In the summer this shrubs has bright red fruits in late summer and it does well into winter. Fall leaf color on this shrub is a bright red-purple that lasts for several weeks. Black choke berry has ripe fruit that it is blacklist purple. It is hardy to -30 degrees F.
Summary
There are many different shrubs that you can put in my yard to have so much pretty color for the fall.
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