Many gardeners love to plant shrubs exclusively with white or red flowers, but only a few know all their names. If you are also one of these gardeners - this article is for you. In the list of the most popular shrubs with white flowers, you can choose a suitable ornamental plant.
Viburnum
Viburnum flowers - It is a symbol of girlish tenderness and beauty. By planting this shrub, you will decorate your garden not only with beautiful buds, but also useful fruits. Viburnum bush is sprawling and grows up to 5 m in height and up to 4 m in width. The shoots are greyish-white or red, the leaves are dark green.
Most often, gardeners plant shrubs with white inflorescences in the form of balls, which has a name "Snowball", or "Buldenezh". Flowering begins in late May, flowers bloom in early June.
Viburnum fruits contain 32% sugar, 3% tannins, as well as vitamin C, organic acids, trace elements and carotene.
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Spirea
Spirea is a family of pink. The plant has flexible shoots and grows in the steppe, forest-steppe and semi-desert.
Spirea can be like dwarf (up to 15 cm in height) and very high (up to 2.5 m). Branches - upright or lying, color - light brown. Flowers are collected in paniculate, spike-like, corymbose and pyramidal inflorescences. They have any color, but most gardeners choose light colors.
Spiraeus is planted in groups or as a single plant. High plants are used for hedges, and dwarf suitable for creating rocky gardens and live carpet.
These are still shrubs can be planted in your garden: felt cherry, dog rose, snowberry, juniper, heather.
Chubushnik
Chubushnik is often confused with jasmine, as their flavors are similar to each other. Gardeners use the plant to decorate hedges or alpine slides.
White flowers of chubushnika are abundantly blooming and have a sweet aroma.
All varieties of shrubs have straight trunks with thin gray bark. Chubushniki can be dwarf (up to 70 cm) and tall (up to 6 m). The leaves grow to 7 cm in length and have the shape of a wide egg. Flowers can be terry and semi-double. Flowering lasts about 3 weeks.
Elder
The next popular bush with white flowers is elderberry. This shrub grows up to 8 m in height. The leaves reach up to 35 cm in length, and the flowers are collected in corymbose inflorescences. They have a white color and bloom from May to June. The fruits ripen in August and have a black color.
The industry uses both flowers and elderberry fruits. The flowers contain essential oils, organic acids, rutin and sambunigrin glycoside. The berries contain ascorbic acid, carotene and tannins. Planting this shrub on the plot, you provide yourself not only with beautiful and abundant flowering with a sweet aroma, but also with medicinal fruits. They have diaphoretic, diuretic, astringent and disinfectant action.
Hydrangea
Under natural conditions, shrub hydrangea grows up to 4 m in height. The plant is evergreen and deciduous. Hydrangea leaves are large and opposite. It blooms spherical buds with small white flowers. Color depends on the soil pH. This means that on neutral soil you will grow white or cream flowers, and in sour - blue or blue.
Important! All parts of the hydrangea contain cyanogenic glycosides. Therefore, it is considered a poisonous plant.
Planted hydrangea in group plantings. The distance between plants should be at least 1 m.
Clematis
Clematis is a diverse shrub. All its forms are not similar among themselves. Among them, most are creepers. Clematis shoots thin and green. Leaves - simple and green. The flowers are gathered in a half-skull, a whisk or shield.
The color can be different - pale pink, light blue, white, yellow, dark red, velvet blue. Flowering lasts up to 3 weeks. The fragrance resembles jasmine, almond or primrose.
Usually the garden serves as a resting place, but one should not forget that it can be a source of danger, we are talking about poisonous plants in the area: Brugmansia, foxglove, laconosa, castor oil, seasonally, buttercup, aquilegia, aconite.
Magnolia
In our gardens it is very rare to find such a plant as a magnolia. Basically it is planted in botanical gardens. Shrubs are used for single or group planting and for creating alleys.
The bark of the shoots is brown and smooth, the leaves are large and elliptical. The flowers are large and fragrant, they have 12 petals, which overlap each other. Magnolia has a pleasant aroma. However, the plant is very demanding and capricious, so it is better to enjoy the flowering magnolia in parks and botanical gardens.
Hibiscus
Hibiscus belongs to the genus of shrubs of the family Malvaceae. There are about 300 species of this plant, they grow in the subtropics and the tropics.
The shrub grows to a height of 1.5 m. Leaves petiolate and incised. The flowers are large and bright.
Hibiscus is grown in gardens and greenhouses.
With this plant, nerve diseases, heart diseases, colds, poor circulation, loss of appetite and diseases of the upper respiratory tract are treated.
Did you know? On the island of Fiji, there is a festival dedicated to the national flower - the Day of fire Hibiscus.
Deytion
Deytsiya refers to the evergreen shrubs of the family hydrangea. There are about 50 species of plants. Homeland deytsii - East Asia, Mexico and the Himalayas. Spray bush sprawling and reaches up to 4 m in height. The leaves are opposite. The flowers are white and odorless, clustered in racemes. To observe the flowering plants can be about 25 years.
Before flowering, deice is like a honeysuckle bush. Shrubs are planted on the borders (stunted species) or in a group planting near the tracks (tall).
Important! Fruits of action - poisonous.
Photogilla
Foutergill is an exotic plant grown in the southeastern regions of North America.
The undersized shrub grows up to 3 m in height and has wide ovate leaves. The flowers are fragrant and collected in the ear.
Many gardeners have probably never heard of such a plant. This is a rare shrub with light cream inflorescences. Flowering begins in early spring and lasts 3 weeks.
Thanks to our list of the most popular shrubs with white flowers, you can choose for yourself the option of a plant and grow it in your own area.