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The Top 5 Best Shrubs for Ultra-Colourful Landscapes

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Shrubs offer so many benefits for landscape designs. They create structure, provide privacy, and if you choose the right varieties, they fill your space with colourful blooms and foliage! If moody maximalism and high-impact colour palettes are your thing, we have plenty of gorgeous shrubs you can plant here in Guelph.

 

The Best Way to Brighten Your Landscape Is with Colourful Shrubs

If you’ve got a colourful personality, you need a colourful garden to match! These five spectacular varieties instantly elevate the landscape with vivacious energy—the perfect backdrop for outdoor entertaining and snapping photos.

 

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Hydrangeas

These mega-colourful shrubs are beloved for their colossal clusters of blooms. Each flower head is like a bouquet in itself! For best results, plant them in a spot that gets some light in the morning but has shade from intense afternoon sunshine. They prefer consistently moist soil—but not soggy—so some mulch will help conserve moisture levels in the soil so you won’t need to water as often.

There are so many colourful varieties of hydrangeas that it can be hard to choose just one! Here are a few technicolour cultivars to grow in Guelph:

  • Quick Fire Fab: You’ll be craving strawberry ice cream when you catch a glimpse of these vanilla flowers blushing with pink, fading to rich red as the season progresses
  • Limelight: A stunning panicle hydrangea with massive, lime green blooms that transition to pink, then burgundy in autumn
  • Little Lime: Minty green petals develop rosy pink borders, fading to burgundy in autumn

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Lilacs

The colourful blooms of this popular shrub are matched in magnitude by their intoxicating perfume! Incredibly cold-hardy and resilient, lilacs are one of the best options for low-maintenance landscapes across Canada. Most lilacs have lavender petals, but there are also deep violet, pink, white, and icy indigo blue varieties. Dwarf Korean lilacs are great for pops of colour throughout the landscape, whereas larger varieties are ideal for privacy screens and fence lines.

 

Junipers

Evergreens are a no-brainer if you want a landscape that stays colourful and visually-appealing all year round! While they may not produce blooms, their vivid, hardy foliage remains on the plant through winter, creating gorgeous contrast against the snowy white scenery.

If you’re looking for something other than your typical true green evergreen shrub, there are plenty of beautiful junipers with interesting tones and tints:

  • Moffat: this frosty blue evergreen has sparkle all year-round
  • Blue Chip: a sprawling shrub with deep blue tones and feathery foliage
  • Old Gold: this low-growing juniper has foliage the color of sunny golden chartreuse

 

Summersweet

It’s no surprise how this flowering shrub earned its name! With fluffy panicles of flowers that fill the air with a sugary sweet aroma each summer, the summersweet continues to be a favourite in Guelph. This hardy shrub can handle full sun, partial sun, or full shade—it’s incredibly versatile and easy to grow! Shadier conditions may result in fewer blooms, but your summersweet will still have plenty of ornamental value to brighten up the darker corners of the landscape.

 

Weigela

This spellbinding shrub is part of the honeysuckle family. Not only are the flowers vibrant and colourful, but the foliage provides plenty of seasonal interest as well! Depending on your chosen variety, weigela’s leaves can be lime green, olive, gold, purple, or variegated! Their signature fluted blooms grow in clusters, attracting hummingbirds and other pretty pollinators. They bloom in late spring, with sparse reblooming through summer and fall.

Discover even more colourful shrubs in Ontario by visiting Royal City Nursery! There are so many vibrant, vivacious landscape plants that can instantly transform a boring yard into spellbinding scenery. If you have any questions about transplanting your new shrub or caring for it during its first year, feel free to chat with our experts at the garden centre!

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