10 Best Landscaping Plants to Choose for Your Home That Will Bloom for Years
Your yard landscape is the welcome mat to your home, so it’s important to choose plants that complement your home, grow well in your climate, and suit your soil type.
Most of us appreciate plants that are easy to grow and require little care, whether they are annuals, perennials, shrubs or herbs, and this is another important factor to consider when growing plants.
Below is a list of 35 plants that are perfect for your front, side or backyard.
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01 Boxwood
Boxwood is often found in foundation or hedge plantings. For foundation plantings, look for dwarf varieties, prized for their dense, light green leaves and compact, rounded growth habit. Bushes after rooting do not require special care, with the exception of periodic pruning to maintain their shape.
02 Liriope
Liriope is a perennial plant with herbaceous flowers that makes a hardy, drought-tolerant groundcover or border plant. A perennial herbaceous plant of the asparagus family, it grows and spreads quite quickly. Plants can be divided and replanted in spring and summer.
03 Hosta
Hosta (Hosta spp.) has dozens of varieties and is a popular ornamental plant that grows well in shade and partial shade. These perennials are easy to care for and propagate. They should be planted in early spring or after the summer heat in early autumn. Trees emerge in early spring to add color and texture to the landscape.
04 Azalea
Rhododendrons are shade-loving evergreen or deciduous shrubs with white, purple, pink, orange, yellow or red flowers in the spring. Best planted in spring or early fall, growth rates vary depending on the species, but most grow relatively slowly.
05 Rhododendron
There are thousands of varieties of azaleas that you can use as evergreen backgrounds or specimen plants for your yard landscape. Woody shrubs come in a variety of sizes and colors. Flowering time varies from late winter to early autumn.
06 Blueberry
If you like the idea of adding fruit to your landscape, the blueberry bush is a shrub that is easy to grow as a hedge or specimen tree. Look for a species that suits your garden layout, as they can grow from 1 to 8 feet tall and 2 to 10 feet wide.
07 Caladium
Caladiums add vibrant color to shady garden borders or when grown in containers. This plant does not overwinter in most growing regions, but you can dig up the bulbs in the fall, store them in a dry place between 70 and 75°F, and replant them in the spring after the last frost. Some varieties can tolerate partial sun or early morning sun.
08 Dianthus
If you’re looking to add some color to your landscape, carnations are a great choice. Grown as annuals, biennials, or evergreen perennials, depending on your hardiness zone, the flowers are scented in shades of pink, purple, or white with fringed or frilly edges. Cloves are deer resistant but can be eaten by rabbits.
09 Zinnia
To add a pop of color to your landscape, zinnias are the perfect plant. They are easy to grow from seed and bloom from late spring through fall in almost all colors.
Zinnias come in a variety of shapes, including honeycombs, buttons, and cacti. Depending on the variety, zinnias can be used as front borders, back borders or in containers. Zinnia is deer and rabbit resistant and attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and songbirds.
10 Indian Hawthorn
Indian hawthorn is a small, round, evergreen shrub with leathery leaves, colorful spring flowers, and purple-black winter fruit. Drought-resistant and with a shallow root system, it is well suited as a foundation plant.