9 Great Native Shrubs For Small Spaces
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- Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024
- Looking to add some beautiful, low-maintenance native shrubs to your garden but short on space? In this video, we explore 9 fantastic native shrubs that are perfect for small gardens and tight spaces. These shrubs not only bring color and texture to your landscape but also support local wildlife and pollinators.
Featured Shrubs:
Smooth Hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens) - Known for its lush, large blooms that brighten up any garden.
Leadplant (Amorpha canescens) - A hardy shrub with stunning purple flowers and silvery foliage.
Black Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) - A multi-season beauty offering spring flowers, summer berries, and vibrant fall color.
Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera) - A tough, low-growing shrub with yellow flowers that attract pollinators.
Maple-leaved Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium) - This shrub adds a touch of elegance with its maple-like leaves and subtle fall hues.
New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus) - A compact shrub with fragrant white flowers that are a favorite of butterflies.
Shrubby Cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa) - A long-blooming shrub that brings sunny yellow flowers to your garden all season long.
Shrubby St John's Wort (Hypericum prolificum) - Adds bright yellow flowers in summer and attractive foliage throughout the year.
Steeplebush (Spiraea tomentosa) - A beautiful addition to any small garden with its striking pink flower spikes.
Join us as we take a closer look at these amazing shrubs, perfect for creating a stunning, wildlife-friendly garden, even in the smallest of spaces!
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thanks for this. this helps me with the planting on the front of my house this upcoming spring.
You're welcome! Many native shrubs suitable for even the most formal of landscapes.
Very helpful, especially your photos of the mature plant. I source native plants in south Ontario Canada but their photos aren’t the best. It’s nice to see what to look forward to for mature plants. Well done ladies, your presentation is stellar! Much appreciated.
Thank you for watching! Native plants are truly stunning and we love displaying that in our videos.
Yay! 7 of these shrubs currently live in my yard! I only wish I had a bigger yard; I've become quite the native plant hoarder.
I completely understand! I have run out of room over here.
Great presentation! Very helpful! Thank you for putting this together!!!
Thank you for watching!
Great Presentation. This should be played in all the big box stores lowes home depot . They should be selling these plants shrubs trees. Theirs should be bans
I couldn't agree more! Our hope is that as more people request straight species native plants, more places will carry them. Retailers will dedicate space to what they think they can sell.
What a wonderful and informative presentation. Absolutely loved it, especially when you highlighted what these plants are hosts for. My very favorite part of gardening is all of the creatures. 😊 The steeplebush was a new one for me and my god was it beautiful looking. I have an area on my property that gets really wet, so will be a great addition there.
Thank you for watching! So glad we could help!
great information thanks! ☀️🌱💦🌺🍃🐝🦋
Watching from New York, love your videos. It gets me inspired to start planting! I planted some native hydrangea last year, love them.
Thank you for watching and for planting native!
These are some gorgeous shrubs. I wish the Leadplant and Shrubby St John's Wort were native here in VA. Those two together would be a lovely contrast when their bloom times overlap.
That is a lovely idea. Thank you!
Ladies, your enthusiasm is just infectious, as always! Thank you for all your research & sharing this information😊 I can say for my part, I’ve put some of these on my ‘wish list’ 👩🏻🌾🌿
Great presentation ladies!!! We need more information on plants that can be used in formal beds and make the HOA's happy!!
Thanks for watching! We have good native plants for HOA's on our future schedule. So important!
I have a Poodle (Time 31:27). A GREAT dog that I never give a "Poodle" haircut so that I have a dog and not an accessory.
Great information!
Thank you for watching! I also have a poodle mix. Smart as a whip. I always give him a puppy cut...no poofs.
I use the sterile hydrangeas just for color but I surround it with native plants!
That is a great idea! A mixed garden of both native and non native can be so colorful!
Great vid. I love the selections though due to deer, I steer clear of NJ Tea. I also love Northern Spicebush and Downy Arrowood Viburnum, shorter than standard Arrowood. I also like Prairie Willow since it allows me to include a Tallemy keystone species in my postage stamp urban lot. It’s great since it tolerates dry conditions… though the deer do graze off of it.
Great thought on the prairie willow! That would be a great addition to this presentation!
Well someone please tell that to the bees and wasps that love my 15’“phantom” hydrangea. 😂
Unfortunately, just because the shape and color of the flowers are attracting them, doesn't mean they are actually finding anything.
Cathy, you mentioned how the color and shape of the flower of a cultivar should not be changed. Did you mean color of the flower only, or leaves as well? Thanks!
Great question! I mean both. Changing the color of the flower definitely decreases its attractiveness to pollinators. According to the Xerces Society, changing the foliage color might be toxic to pollinator larvae.
xerces.org/blog/cultivar-conundrum
@@sagmorainenativeplantcommunity Wow, thanks!
Very interested in the info shared, but it would be helpful to a wider audience if you included your geographic location and USDA Zone. Your video just happened to turn up on my RUclips feed. I took the time to google your website, and even there I had to really dig to find you’re in NE Illinois. Your contact info doesn’t include a snail-mailing address, which used to be a quick away to discover location. FWIW I’m in 6b in Cincinnati, Ohio.
So sorry you had difficulty finding us. Our location is on the home page of our website but may not be easy to find unless you read all the text. We have mentioned often in our videos where we are from and will be sure to do that in all. However, our exact location isn't of great importance. We always give the hardiness zone and native range of the plants we discuss. Most of these plants have huge native ranges that cover 1/3 to 1/2 or more of the country.
There is alternative: these shrubs are great but maybe non native all round globe. Is there chance to change them with native local shrubs in the same lines, variaties or sorts? The same type of shrub locally instead these which are invasive for my region!
Great question! Yes, these native shrubs are native to the areas shown on the map. Every location on the globe has plant species that are native to that particular area. What is native in one area might be invasive in another area because it doesn't have the natural checks and balances. It is important to find the plants that are native to your specific location.
What’s the meaning of the light green vs. the dark green on the map? Thanks!
Light green means native to that county, dark green means native to the state.
The dark green is the state color key and the light green is the county color key.
bonap.org/MapKey.html
What does each color code mean on the map? In particular what is difference between light and dark green. Thank you
Light green means native to the county, dark green means native to the state.
This link explains all the map colors.
bonap.org/MapKey.html
Hum… My hydrangea ‘Incrediball’ are litteraly covered by bees, bumblebees and wasps. 🤷♀
Hydrangea flowers are made up of many smaller florets. The smaller, non-showy florets produce pollen and nectar and are fertile. The larger, showy florets attract the pollinators but produce no pollen or nectar and are sterile. The straight species native hydrangea arborescens has both types of florets, a few to attract the pollinators and many to feed the pollinators. Your cultivars are very good at attracting the pollinators but there is no payoff for them. You are seeing pollinators looking for pollen and nectar but they don't find any.
@@sagmorainenativeplantcommunity Oh no! Thank you, I did not know that.
Before I knew better, I got an Annabelle hydrangea. What a disappointment!
Don't feel bad...I did as well.