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Increase Curb Appeal Using Shrubs and Bushes

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

By Greg Boswell

 

If you want to create a home with more curb appeal or just add color on the side or rear property, you have many excellent options with flowering bushes. Depending on Bush that you choose, you'll find yourself with beautiful flowers at different times of the year, which gives your home a new look, new and exciting. Adding a shrub with bright red flowers, yellow or purple will completely transform the look of your home, making it more inviting. As you can see from the information below, flowering blushes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and flowers, all beautiful and very exotic fragrance.

Butterfly Bush Bumpa Bumpa

The Butterfly Bush gets its name because it attracts butterflies, but it is also known to attract other creatures include fritillaries, turtle shells, bees, honey, and swallowtail, while enjoying the sweet nectar of flowers. Officially known as "Buddleia", there are over 100 species and cultivars. These bushes are medium to large size, making it an exceptional choice or forming a hedge, filling in space, or anchor a perennial bed.

The only downside to the Butterfly Bush is that he is very vigorous and messy. In other words, the branches will begin to grow and how they like being so adjustment is required. The branches support beautiful lilac-like clusters of flowers and lateral branches and flowers. The fragrance of flowers is sweet and pleasant, especially during the warmest pair of day. These flowers come in a variety of colors like white, purple, pink and red.

These bushes have a high tolerance to alkaline soil and air pollution, while pet-free except for the spider could see during stress or drought. The Butterfly Bush prefers the warmth of the sun and well drained soil. In spring, a light fertilizer is suggested with deep watering in summer months. Some varieties are easy to grow include B. globosa, B. colvtlei, B. alternifolia and B. asiatica, and to encourage a second flowering, you can prune the Butterfly Bush immediately after the first bloom is complete.

Whimsical Azaleas

Known as "The royalty of the garden", azaleas are in thousands of varieties, each beautiful. Considered a "case" or "hybrid", azaleas are also a very popular type of flowering bush. You will discover a wide range of colors from red, pink, orange, purple, white and yellow, depending on the type of Azalea you purchase. What makes the Azalea so unique is the bloom, which varies dramatically in different varieties, about half an inch, or about five inches.

The number of petals also depends on the type of Azalea. Single flowers are usually five petals although on rare occasions you might see six. Hose-in-hose flowers can have up to 12 petals while a double hose in hose-May 30 or more. In addition, Azaleas boast different shaped petals, again, depending on variety. The height of this bush ranges from just under a foot to four feet, although there are varieties that grow well over 15 feet tall.

Azaleas usually bloom in spring, while some will be late flowering as September, but lasting only one or two weeks. Most Azaleas do best with a high degree of shade, preferring slightly acid soil. You want to keep moisture around the base of the bush, what can be done using pine bark, wood chips or pine needles. The most important aspect of growing Azaleas is good drainage. The best solution is to plant the bush so the root ball is exposed above the ground a few inches with the mulching pushed around it to protect themselves. This balance is azaleas also like moist soil to the root.

As you can see, flowering shrubs are a fun way to improve your home and property. Other excellent choices you might consider:

Flowering Quince - Product rose like flowers with a beautiful red flower in spring.

Deutzia - Simple to grow, this flowering bush makes small flowers in the spring, which are usually white.

Dwarf Buckeye - Blossoming in the summer with 12-inch spikes.

Witch Hazel - This flowering bush can grow to 20 feet, producing yellowish spidery flowers.

Forsythia - Tremendous for lining walls, this bush boasts drooping sprays of yellow flowers.