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
- Spirea
- Chubushnik
- Elder
- Hydrangea
- Clematis
- Magnolia
- Hibiscus
- Deytion
- Photogilla
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 grayish white or red, the leaves are dark green.
Most often, gardeners planted 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.
Spirea
Spiraea 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 planted in groups or as a single plant. Tall plants are used for hedges, and dwarf suitable for creating stony gardens and live carpet.
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 bloom profusely 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 glycoside sambunigrin. 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 pH of the soil. This means that on neutral soil you will grow white or cream flowers, and in sour - blue or blue.
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 various - pale pink, light blue, white, yellow, dark red, velvet blue. Flowering lasts up to 3 weeks. The fragrance is reminiscent of jasmine, almond or primrose.
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 best 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.
Shrub grows up to 1.5 m in height. Leaves petiolate and incised. The flowers are large and bright.
Hibiscus is grown in gardens and greenhouses.
With the help of this plant, nervous diseases, heart diseases, a cold, poor circulation, loss of appetite and diseases of the upper respiratory tract are treated.
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. Deutiyu 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 curbs (stunted species) or in a group planting near the tracks (tall).
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.