Photograph by Marie Viljoen, from 11 Favorites: Edible Flowers of Spring. (See Gardening 101: Ground Covers for Every Landscape for more on cotoneaster as a ground cover.) Lilac ( Syringa vulgaris) Above: Lilacs are surprisingly easy to grow. It is low-growing, up to one foot tall, and makes a good ground cover for rocky, dry areas. It’s evergreen, comes in various leaf colors, and has bright red berries. It is as much at home in your front yard as it is on the side of a cliff. It is even more drought-tolerant, though, needing very little water. Photograph by A ndrey Zharkikh via Flickr.Ĭotoneaster tolerates the same conditions as holly and rose of Sharon. Cotoneaster ( Cotoneaster dammeri) Above: Cotoneaster dammeri ‘Lowfast’. It is in the hibiscus family and has beautiful flowers in pinks, purples and whites. You don’t have to prune it unless you want to.
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It can tolerate full shade but will have limited flowering. It tolerates heavy clay, loam, and sandy soils. It can be opportunistic, which can be great if you’re searching for a good privacy hedge. Rose of Sharon is a right-plant-in-the-right-place kind of shrub. Rose of Sharon ( Hibiscus syriacus) Above: A ‘Purple Pillar’ rose of Sharon $21.99 for 1 qt at Great Garden Plants. Fun fact: If hollies are not browsed by deer for a significant amount of time, their signature leaves lose their spikiness and revert to ovate and smooth. All they ask of you is some fertilizer and a light pruning in the spring. Their leaves make them very deer-resistant. Once established, they are drought-tolerant. They can do well in all sorts of soils, from sand to clay. Holly, all kinds, are pretty easy to grow. Photograph by Kendra Wilson, from Gardening 101: Holly. Holly ( Ilex) Above: A variegated holly with smooth leaves. What sets these apart from other shrubs is their ability to thrive with minimal human intervention. And you’ll still have to water these shrubs during droughts and heat waves prune out dead, damaged, and diseased branches and make an effort to protect them from deer (remember, there are no deer-proof shrubs, just varying degrees of resistance). There are, of course, no pest- and disease-free plants. All that they need from you is a little attention here and there in the spring and fall. They will allow you to have time on your weekends to grill, go to the beach, hike in the woods (and see native shrubs!), read a book, go away for the weekend. However, there are some low-maintenance shrubs that are very forgiving of neglect.
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You will see yews, hemlocks, and hollies that block ground-floor windows and a few that tower over the house. If you want proof, drive around any first-ring suburb with homes over a century old. No way around it: Shrubs require maintenance and cannot be completely ignored. And you may also think back, with a shudder, to the time there was a sudden cold snap that froze the flower buds. Then there are the pests-scale on euonymus, blight on boxwoods, and ever-present hungry deer.
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