Bushes That Flower

Chet

Chet

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PA, USA
It's spring and I'm looking at the backyard and it needs some color.... something that flowers for a long time, requires not a lot of work and is suitable for the PA climate. Someone, somewhere is going to help I'm sure.
 

In our climate chokecherries are quite hardy, take little to no care, and bloom profusely in spring, our bloom is just passing. Of all the trees and shurbs we planted when we got here none have done better than the chokecherries.

Serviceberries have also done well and have a nice spring bloom. They just don't grow as fast as the chokecherries.

I read that they are called serviceberries because they bloom prolifically and early in the spring. The dead were stored when the ground froze and all buried at once in the spring. Hence the flowers were used for the services.
 
Knockout roses..
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Chet said:
It's spring and I'm looking at the backyard and it needs some color.... something that flowers for a long time, requires not a lot of work and is suitable for the PA climate. Someone, somewhere is going to help I'm sure.
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Rose of Sharon ! Stop by in a few weeks and I'll give you some! They are a bit slow to green up in the spring, but after that, they give big blooms way into fall! And, they self-propagate!
 
I love reading all the ideas in these posts, and imagining seeing them.:)

I thought of Burning Bush, which do not flower significantly;
However, they look fantastic and colorful, every Autumn, and they do not require much, if any care. And I know they would grow well in PA.
 
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