Long Blooming Summer Shrubs
For many gardeners, spring and early summer is annual planting time. Now is a good time to plant some summer flowering shrubs – they’ll burst into flower every year at the same time, without much effort on your part.
Crape Myrtle can be grown either as a shrub or small trees. This beautiful long-blooming plant loves heat, and produces masses of vibrant pink (or red, white, or lavender) flowers that are ruffled like crepe paper.
Princess Flower (Tibouchina) produces large velvety flowers in a deep royal purple. The bright green fuzzy leaves are bronze-orange when young. This shrub or small tree blooms into winter.
Cape Plumbago is a sprawling shrub (to 6′) that produces pale blue or white clusters of phlox-like flowers at the end of the branch.
Other summer blooming shrubs include abutilon, blue hibiscus, bougainvillea, butterfly bush, escallonia, hibiscus, lantana, roses, and many more!